Make a table fill the entire window

Question

How can I make a HTML table fill the entire browser window horizontally and vertically?

The page is simply a title and a score which should fill the entire window. (I realise the fixed font sizes are a separate issue.)

<table style="width: 100%; height: 100%;">
    <tr style="height: 25%; font-size: 180px;">
        <td>Region</td>
    </tr>
    <tr style="height: 75%; font-size: 540px;">
        <td>100.00%</td>
    </tr>
</table>

When I use the above code, the table width is correct, but the height shrinks to fit the two rows of text.

I'm likely to be forced to use Internet Explorer 8 or 9 to present this page.

Solution 1

You can use position like this to stretch an element across the parent container.

<table style="position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0;">
    <tr style="height: 25%; font-size: 180px;">
        <td>Region</td>
    </tr>
    <tr style="height: 75%; font-size: 540px;">
        <td>100.00%</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Solution 2

you can see the solution on http://jsfiddle.net/CBQCA/1/

OR

<table style="height:100%;width:100%; position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0;border:1px solid">
     <tr style="height: 25%;">
        <td>Region</td>
    </tr>
    <tr style="height: 75%;">
        <td>100.00%</td>
    </tr>
</table>​

I removed the font size, to show that columns are expanded. I added border:1px solid just to make sure table is expanded. you can remove it.

Solution 3

This works fine for me:

<style type="text/css">
#table {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	bottom: 0;
	left: 0;
	right: 0;
	height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
}
</style>

For me, just changing Height and Width to 100% doesn’t do it for me, and neither do setting left, right, top and bottom to 0, but using them both together will do the trick.

Solution 4

Below line helped me to fix the issue of scroll bar for a table; the issue was awkward 2 scroll bars in a page. Below style when applied to table worked fine for me.
<table Style="position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%";/>

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Comments

[Hand-E-Food]

Thanks for those answers! I notice in IE8 that this seems to extend about another 10px too far. Is there an easy fix for this, or should I stick with height: 95%?

[Todd Baur]

probably margin:0 or padding:0 fixes that.

[T30]

This doesen't prevent the table to extend vertically above the page.

[Todd Baur]

Mind showing me some code so I can help? The table will fill the width and height of its parent. So if the parent container does it, so would the table.

[Marcel Marino]

The issue with this solution is that if you're trying to create a header you'll want the next element to go below this one, but absolute positions makes it intangible to the rest of the elements in the DOM.

[Todd Baur]

Absolute positioning is relative to its parent container. That means '<div style="position:relative"> will contain/constrain an absolutely positioned element assuming no other rules are cascading into it.

[kpie]

you are rendering white space in the html.