Setting the Width
By default, a browser will automatically determine the width of your cells by looking at the elements and text they contain. It will then expand each cell to the edge of its contents or to the edge of the browser window, whichever comes first. With images, that’s pretty clear cut; the edge of the image will be the edge of the cell. Text, however, is stretched out until the first line break, or until the end of the paragraph, which can be very long indeed.
Figure 16.13. This table has a 200 pixel wide image with no borders. We set the width of the table to 200 pixels to keep the text from stretching out.
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