Min-width and max-height for table attributes

Question

I have a table and I want to define the min-width and max-height properties. See example below.

My problem now is that the browser doesn\'t

Answer 1

For table cells the 'width' property should be used, as the 'min-width' and 'max-width' is undefined for table cells. See the specification:

"In CSS 2.1, the effect of 'min-width' and 'max-width' on tables, inline tables, table cells, table columns, and column groups is undefined."

To enforce the width, you may try to change the table-layout property to "fixed". The specification describes the algorithm pretty clearly.