How to set default width for the <th> and <td>?

I want to know how ca开发者_如何学Gon I set my desired width for all the and in my tables. What happens is that when I declare something like <th> Employee Code </th>, it will separate the Employee and Code and creating two lines. This usually happens when the data is shorter than the table header. I want to make my table go wider when the table data is long and not go taller like what is happening right now. Please help...

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You can enclose the parts that you don't want broken across the line with a <nobr> </nobr> tag. The browser will not wrap this part of the text.

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You can use the Colspan property like <th COLSPAN=2> Employee Code </th> Colspan indicates the number of columns a cell should take up. There is also Rowspan property.

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use css:

table.mytable th
{
 height:20px;
 text-align:center;
 font-weight:bold;
 font-family:arial;
 font-size:12px;
 background-color:yellow;
 width:100px;
}


table.mytable td
{
 height:20px;
 text-align:center;
 font-weight:bold;
 font-family:arial;
 font-size:12px;
 width:100px;
}

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The CSS attribute min-width was designed for this and compatibility is good. Except for IE6.