Setting table row height

Answer 1

I found the best answer for my purposes was to use:

.topics tr { 
    overflow: hidden;
    height: 14px;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

The white-space: nowrap is important as it prevents your row's cells from breaking across multiple lines.

I personnally like to add text-overflow: ellipsis to my th and td elements to make the overflowing text look nicer by adding the trailing fullstops, for example Too long gets dots...