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

Simon Coggins ppxsjc1 at unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Apr 18 10:59:52 CDT 2001


> >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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