How to fix height of TR?

Question

Is it possible to fix the height of a row (tr) on a table?

The problem appears when I shrink the window of the browser, some rows start playing around, and I can not fix the height of the row.

I tried several ways: tr width="20" / tr style="height:20px" / td height="20" / td style="height:20px"

I am using IE7

Style

.tableContainer{
    color:#0076BF;
    margin: -10px 0px -10px 0px;
    border-spacing: 10px;
    empty-cells:show;
    width:90%;
    text-align:left;
} 

.tableContainer tr td{
    white-space:nowrap;
    text-align:left;
}

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user_94197 · Answer

Tables are iffy (at least, in IE) when it comes to fixing heights and not wrapping text. I think you'll find that the only solution is to put the text inside a div element, like so:

td.container > div {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    overflow:hidden;
}
td.container {
    height: 20px;
}


    
        
            This is a long line of text designed not to wrap 
                 when the container becomes too small.

This way, the div's height is that of the containing cell and the text cannot grow the div, keeping the cell/row the same height no matter what the window size is.

user_216074 · Answer

Try putting the height into one of the cells, like this:

Note however, that you won't be able to make the cell smaller than the content requires it to be. In that case you would have to make the text smaller first.

 
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user_2987600 · Answer

Putting div inside a td made it work for me.

user_139396 · Answer

Your table width is 90% which is relative to it's container.

If you squeeze the page, you are probably squeezing the table width as well. The width of the cells reduce too and the browser compensate by increasing the height.

To have the height untouched, you have to make sure the widths of the cells can hold the intented content. Fixing the table width is probably something you want to try. Or perhaps play around with the min-width of the table.

user_104452 · Answer

That is because the words are wrapping and are going on new lines hence stretching the TR. This should fix your problem:

overflow:hidden;

Put that in the TR styles Although it should work, why not just let it stretch o0

PS. i aint tested it so dont hate XD

How to fix height of TR?

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