HTML td with fixed width

[Alien]

Hi
I want to make sure that in my table the columns are fixed width. So if the content of it is very large the column can expand downwards but no across. I have tried using the width attribute with no luck.

How can I achieve this? Thanks.

[Rabbit]

Please show us the code you're using.

[ariful alam]

Ok, see I used same width for the columns in the table in code block. but because of text in the <td></td> block the width gets more width-er than defined. I think there is no solution for this.

<table>
	<tr>
		<td style='width:150px; height:50px; border:1px silver solid'>
			i love my country Bangladesh.
		</td>
		<td style='width:150px; height:50px; border:1px silver solid'>
			abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
		</td>
		<td style='width:150px; height:50px; border:1px silver solid'>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

[Rabbit]

You could probably do it with the CSS3 max-width style. But my browswer at work doesn't support CSS3 so I can't test it. You could always fake it with divs.

[ariful alam]

As @Rabbit says, max-width can fix the problem. but it rises a new problem. and that is your long text will go outside of the column <td></td>