Table Column width must be same for two tables

Question

There are two tables with width 600px and 5 Columns each. But, width has not been set for each column. Here, I want to make columns width must be same in both the tables. You can use CSS or jQuery. And, I dont want to fix the column width manually.

HTML Example:

<table width="600" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
        <td>hdng 1</td>
        <td>hdng 2</td>
        <td>hdng 3</td>
        <td>hdng 4</td>
        <td>hdng 5</td>
    </tr>
</table>
<table width="600" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
        <td>content content content</td>
        <td>con</td>
        <td>content content content</td>
        <td>content content content</td>
        <td>content content content</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you want all columns are in the same width, and since you're sure that you'll have exactly five columns in each table, I would suggest:

<table style="table-layout:fixed">
<col style="width:20%" span="5" />
<tr><!--stuffs...--></tr>
</table>