widescreens and my html documents

[kingb00zer]

hey i recently started working with a pc which has a widescreen monitor and I'm not entirely sure if this has effected the output of my html documents (i also started my work from scratch). If not then lets say I wanted to set 3 tables side by side at the top of my page and I wanted it to span the whole way on both widescreen and normal screen monitors how far does the width have to = in order to fill the screen without going over the sides? I thought it was a total of 1000 but so far the 3 tables total a width of 1350 with room remaining.

[Synook]

Hmm, all monitors have different resolutions, even among those with widescreen or standard aspect ratios. Common screen widths include 1024, 1280, 1366, 1440, 1680, 1920 and 1650 pixels.

[dsonesuk]

I don't get you are trying say?a fixed table of 1000px, in a 1024 pixel wide resolution screen, will fit tightly, but when viewed in 1400, or 1600 pixel wide resolution screens, there is obviously going to be a difference of 376px(1400 - 1024), and 576px (1600 - 1024).It all depends on layout, but if want fluid tables to stretch total width what ever screen resolution, use percentages for widths for tables, if 3 tables use 33% width on each.

[kingb00zer]

so you think using % for width with css would be the best way to ensure all users have the page fitting on the screen without that annoying side scroll that occurs sometimes?

[kingb00zer]

oh i see, that works fine, now time to figure out exactly what percentage I am using on the 2 smaller tables... Thanks

[dsonesuk]

yes if want tables to stretch equally, across whatever screen resolution might be the best solution to use percentage.

[kingb00zer]

Thanks that saves me from doing what i dreaded having to do and making both a widescreen and regular screen version