Table cell widths - fixing width, wrapping/truncating long words

Question

I have a table containing cells with text of various lengths. It is essential that all of the table cells are of the same width. If this means truncating long words or forcing a

Answer 1

I realize you needed a solution for IE6/7 but I'm just throwing this out for anyone else.

If you can't use table-layout: fixed and you don't care about IE < 9 this works for all browsers.

td {
    overflow-x: hidden;
    overflow-y: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
    max-width: 30px;
}