How to make max table width 100%?

I have a table that I want to stretch only the maximum width of the browser window. But, if I put a very long string of letters without spaces into the table, and it becomes longer than the table width, the whole table becomes messed up, and horizontal scroll bars appear. How do I stop this? I want the long text to break to the next line instead.

I heard there is a css max-width option, but it doesn't work in IE. Any other options?

Thanks.

 

Have you tried:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="%100"><tr><td>

</tr></td></table>

?

 

Did you mean width="100%"? Yeah, I've tried that of course. It still stretches everything to fit the long string of text.

Thanks.