Chrome, Safari ignoring max-width in table
I've got HTML code like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td>
<table style="width:100%; max-width:1000px; background:#000099;">
<tr>
<td>
001
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The problem is that Chrome and Safari are ignoring "max-width:1000px"
My friend has found that we can prevent it by adding "display:block" for the inner table, and it's somehow working.
So, what I want to know is - are there any other ways of solving this problem and why is this happening?
Answer
Max-width applies to block elements. <table> is neither block nor inline. Ambiguous enough? haha. You can use display:block; max-width:1000px and forget about width:100%. Chrome and Safari follow the rules!
Edit May 2017: please note, this comment was made 7 years ago (in 2010!). I suspect browsers have changed a bunch over the years (I wouldn't know, I no longer do web design). I recommend using a more recent solution.