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What is the typical table width on a webpage?
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911paramedic
Diamond Member
~760. Gives room for scrool bars on an 800px wide resolution, which is still the most common setting.
Homerboy
Lifer
800 is hardly the most common... 1024x768 is the default that you should design for.
% are useful if you are trying to make a site that stretches the width of the viewers resoluition (so theres no dead space at all)
Also 760 will be to small even for 800 if I recall it should be 780 to allow for right side scroll width.
% are useful if you are trying to make a site that stretches the width of the viewers resoluition (so theres no dead space at all)
Also 760 will be to small even for 800 if I recall it should be 780 to allow for right side scroll width.
It's not the most common, but like that link shows, it's a large chunk and you should be designing for 800x600. That way, all the 1024x768 users can still see the page and you're not excluding the 800x600 people.
It doesn't mean that you can't have content outside of the 760x420 area (dimensions after taking in consideration the browser window height) But the important stuff should fit in that area.
Just look at big sites like CNN ... fits nicely into a browser window on an 800x600 desktop
You can test your site in different resolutions using this
I prefer designing my sites in percentages, but I make one table the minimum size I want my site viewed at. My current site (found in sig) looks readable even at about 300 pixels wide, if you so choose to view it that way.
Design for the masses, cater to individuals when it's easy to.
Design for the masses, cater to individuals when it's easy to.
WHipLAsh13
Golden Member
I agree 100%. I always develop for 800 wide since 4 out of every 10 people still use that resolution. Thanks for that link Elite. Beats always changing resolution.
900? dude that is a huge site. as a general rule of thumb you should design for a screen resolution of 800x600, accounting for the scroll bars on the side as previously mentioned. Personally, when using a fixed width I usually use anywhere from 600-760ish depeding on my design. Another option is to use the %'s so that your page can adjust to whatever size resolution and still look decient.
900 is huge though.