Over six years ago I wrote a short post about preventing HTML tables from becoming too wide. The solutions I offered in that post involve using table-layout:fixed to lock down the width of tables. While that may work in some cases, it often will not be very pleasant to use. Since I wrote that post, many, many small screen devices that you can use to browse the web have been released, which means that the risk of people encountering a data table that is too wide to fit their browser window is ...
