width = 80% if width<1000px else width=1000px

how is this done?

 

1st you'd have to use javascript to detect the visitors window size
2nd you'd have to do an if/else statement to determine if you were going to use 80% or 1000px.
3rd You'd have to put that variable into your HTML.

How's that?

 

Bang on and almost a total waste of time and effort to do it....

 

With asp, you can get the screen size and do the calculations server side. What language are you using?

 

some short paragraphs just look really stupid stretched out to 2000 px

I guess I could google all of that. Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

 

Why 2000px?

Most systems out there are way short of that so hard limit your page to eg 730 - most do

 

Right direction is what I was going for. I don't know all the code.

 

I've often wanted to do this.

Basically, having an upper limit on the width of a table.

I don't know why this isn't an existing property of the table tag, since it would come in so handy at times.

 

Oh actually, there's apprently a CSS max-width property that you might wanna experiement with. For example:

<table width="80%" and style="max-width:1000px">
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>

 

If that doesnt work (I cant test this at the mo..), then enclose your table inside a div:

<div style="width:80%;max-width:1000px">
<table width="100%"><tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>
</div>

 

Oh sorry, I didn't realise this thread was over a year old!

 

no problem. perhaps this will help someone else.