table overflow-x css

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Firefox, does not seem to display the table with scrolling correctly. Safari, and Chrome are both displaying as expected, where they add a scroll bar for overflow-x. Does anyone have any suggestions on getting Firefox to respond?

<tr>
<td  colspan="5" style="max-width:980px; overflow-x: scroll; white-space: nowrap; ">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
</table>
</td>
</tr>

Do you have content in that nested table? Also, what version of Firefox & Chrome? — Patches
– Patches, Commented Jan 3, 2012 at 0:07

Jukka K. Korpela · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-03 00:05:42Z

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It sometimes happens that you cannot directly work on table cells (even though the specs say you should be able to do that). As a workaround, you can introduce an element that contains all of the contents of the cell and set properties on it, e.g.

<td  colspan="5"><div style="max-width:980px; overflow-x: scroll; white-space: nowrap; ">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
  ...
</table></div>
</td>

This workaround seems to help on Firefox (and on IE).

answered Jan 3, 2012 at 0:05

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Neil · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-03 00:26:51Z

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Unless you fix the table layout (starting with table-layout: fixed; on the table itself) then then cell will always size to its content and therefore never overflow.

answered Jan 3, 2012 at 0:26

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