What does max-width: 0px do?

Question

An answer posted to jQuery.expandingTextarea not working inside a table involves the use on a table-cell of $(\'td\').css(\'max-width\',\'0px\').

The soluti

Answer 1

table {
  table-layout: fixed;
}

This fixes the cell widths to the value they are given. So if you do width: 30% on the cells, they won't resize based on their content and will maintain their set widths.

If only some of the cells are given a width value, the remaining cells will share the space available. Use this functionality as a replacement to max-width.

Using max-width: 0px is more of a quirk than reliable behaviour.

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