Comments on: Gmail table column sizing css fun

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:37:10 +0000

thx, that helped me!

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:38:32 +0000

This is not exactly the same as Gmail’s table lay-out: at least in Firefox 3 all columns get a slightly different width when resizing the window; in Gmail, only the subject column’s width is changed, all the other column’s widths stay the same.

By: handy blog

handy blog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:15:23 +0000

really cool css-trick, thanks!

By: mark

mark — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:12:42 +0000

Looks good. The only thing I’d suggest for demonstration purposes is to apply the treatment to all the columns (looks good except for the second column). It is obvious that it works, but the full effect could be realized by treating the second column (name).

Thanks for the tip. The tutorial does the trick and works perfect in my own environment. It is a small detail in GMail that many people probably don’t notice.

By: marty

marty — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:51:21 +0000

great work! very useful!

By: jkuhnert

jkuhnert — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:05:38 +0000

@Bill

Yeah, sorry for the confusion. I just sort of cobbled together an example from the project I’m working on and was too lazy to create a proper “clean” demo page. The first column is the one with the underflow stuff happening.

By: Bill Mill

Bill Mill — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:59:45 +0000

At least, I thought it was going to expand? I guess, looking at the source, that all you wanted was the table alignment?

If so, I apologize. Though that wasn’t exactly clear from the article.

By: Bill Mill

Bill Mill — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:58:35 +0000

OK – when I click on a link in the demo, I get brought to a nonexistant page on your site (http://blog.opencomponentry.com/blah). Clicking a check box seems to do nothing. Clicking on “title” brings me to that same nonexistant page.

By: jkuhnert

jkuhnert — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:40 +0000

As much as I do normally appreciate bug reports, the reports coming in so far are about as helpful as well I don’t know….

Maybe you have a browser version/platform combined with expected vs. actual results?

By: Bill Mill

Bill Mill — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:52:16 +0000

Second that the example does not work.