Check out this article from 456bereastreet.com: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200704/how_to_prevent_html_tables_from_becoming_too_wide/
Specifically: The layout model of tables differ from that of block level elements in that they will normally expand beyond their specified width to make their contents fit. At first that may sound like a good thing – and it often is – but it makes it possible for oversized content to make text unreadable or completely break a site’s layout, especially in Internet Explorer. On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rockwell <[email protected]>wrote: > > What browser? I'm not seeing the issue in FF 24 > If you have a wide screen, try making it more narrow, until your vertical > scrollbar init's. > > I don't see any explicit widths but the avenue's I would go down first is > to check how "display: table" should behave within "display: block", and > furthermore how it should behave when it's parent element is floated (not > sure if that matters). Regardless of any CSS behavior, the markup is > semantically incorrect. > > > -- Chris Rockwell ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
