set a universal size for the cells in a table

[Brendan Kennedy]

Does anyone know how to do this??
td {width: 200px}
in my style sheet doesn't work..
I also tried for just one cell <td width=200> but this didn't do anything!
everyone on the web seem to think that that's the solution but it's not.
It would be better if I can set the size in the <table> tag or the <td> tag cos I dynamically draw the table headers separately in a div and I
can't have the css being applied to them each time they're drawn.
It is ok if the cells are large because I hope to make them all the same size as the largest cell(the size of which is known)
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brendan

[James Lee]

I have the same issue. Does anyone have a solution/get-around?

Thanks.

[Eric Pascarello]

<style type="text/javascript">
  td{width:200px; background:red;}
</style>
 
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>A</td>
    <td>A</td>
    <td>A</td>
  </tr>
</table> 

That works for me, not sure what is the problem.

Eric

[James Lee]

Thanks, Eric.

The issue is when the length of a cell content is more than 200 px in your code, that column will be changed wider. In other words, is there a way to make cell contents get wrapped automatically if they are two long so that the column's width stays fixed instead of getting bigger?

Thanks.

[Eric Pascarello]

You can look into the css word-wrap

Eric