[thelist] What's the max size of a table that browsers can handle?

[pfunk at pfunk.org]

I'd suggest breaking the table after every 500 or 1000 rows.  Make sure you
use <TD width=XXX> on the first row following the <TABLE><TR> definition to
make sure all the cells are lined up.  I'd not suggest using the width=XXX
setting on every row, it would GREATLY increase the filesize of the page.

Phil Holmes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Coggins" <ppxsjc1 at unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] What's the max size of a table that browsers can
handle?


>
> > >I have a researcher that wants to put a list of genes on our intranet
as a
> > >single page. The problem is that the list is ~10,000 lines, each 4
cells
> > >wide. The file is text only and weighs in at a whopping 4.5 MB.
Netscape
> > >just sits there thinking but IE seems to work after a little wait.
>
> If they *really* insist on using just a single page (for instance if you
> want to do a in page search on the list), I would recommend using the
> <pre> tag rather than a table, or just publishing the page as a .txt file.
>
> 4.5 MB though - ouch!
>
> Simon
>
>
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