Table Width and Height Students may view your web pages with all sorts of computers. The monitors may be of various widths. Web browsers are designed to wrap long lines of text if the monitor is narrower, and to expand a line of text on a large monitor. Tables should be designed to accommodate various monitor sizes. There are several methods for controlling the width of a table.
Most tables look better if they are smaller than the entire width of a browser.
You can change the width of the table by changing the percent of the window width that the table should consume, or by specifying an absolute number of pixels that the table should consume. The percent is relative, that is, on small monitors the table shrinks and on larger monitors the table grows in width. If you specify the width in pixels, the table assumes the same width on all size monitors. You can control the table height in the same way, by specifying either a relative percent of the screen height, or an absolute pixel value. If the Table Height is left unchecked, text wraps in a cell to accommodate the table width.