# Table spanning

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/table-spanning/52297>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 22, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/table-spanning/52297 "2004-05-22T00:27:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![sanman918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@sanman918](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sanman918)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/table-spanning/52297/1 "2004-05-22T00:27:46Z")

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hey, I know that most of us have better resolutions then 800x600 but I still want to design for that resolution. Well I have a table with like columns. I want the 5th column to expand the whole width of the extra screen. So depending on which resolution u had it still went all the way. i know you can do this with percents. Hoever how would I just do one cell, or do I have to do the whole table?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/table-spanning/52297/2 "2004-07-05T20:35:56Z")

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try an overall width of 100% for the table, but set absolute widths in pixels for the first 4 cells in the first row (say 160px each, if you want all 5 columns to look equal at 800 x 600px), and leave the last cell width undefined - that way the last cell of the row (and for all rows underneath) will fill the rest of the space at higher res