Giving height to table and row in Bootstrap

Question

I am using Bootstrap 3 , i am trying to give height to table and row, but nothing is working for me .

I tried setting line-height and other properties of table, how can I increase height?

<style>
    div#description {
        background-color: gray;
        height: 25%;
        border: 2px black;
    }
    tr {
        line-height: 25px;
    }
    .container {
        height: 100%
    }
    table {
        height: 100%
    }
    #topics tr {
        line-height: 14px;
    }
</style>
</head>

<body>
    <div class="container">

        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-7 col-xs-10 pull-left">
                <p>Hello</p>
                <div class="table-responsive">
                    <table class="table table-bordered ">
                        <tbody>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                                <td></td>
                            </tr>


                        </tbody>
                    </table>
                </div>


            </div>
            <div class="col-md-5 col-xs-8 pull-right" id="description">
                <p>Hello2</p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

You should accept an answer. – gsamaras Nov 09 '15 at 14:14 — gsamaras, Nov 09 '15 at 14:14

score 38 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 17 '13 at 09:34

For the <tr>'s just set

tr {
   line-height: 25px;
   min-height: 25px;
   height: 25px;
}

It works with bootstrap also. For the 100% height, 100% must be 100% of something. Therefore, you must define a fixed height for one of the containers, or the body. I guess you want the entire page to be 100%, so (example) :

body {
    height: 700px;
}
.table100, .row, .container, .table-responsive, .table-bordered  {
    height: 100%;
}

A workaround not to set a static height is by forcing the height in code according to the viewport :

$('body').height(document.documentElement.clientHeight);

all the above in this fiddle -> http://jsfiddle.net/LZuJt/

Note : I do not care that you have 25% height on #description, and 100% height on table. Guess it is just an example. And notice that clientHeight is not right since the documentElement is an iframe, but you'll get the picture in your own projekt :)

Instead of using js to set the body height you could use 100vh (vh - Relative to 1% of the height of the viewport: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_units.asp) — Rune Antonsen, Dec 04 '17 at 09:59

BENARD Patrick · Answer 2 · 2016-02-25T20:16:01.977

9

CSS:

tr {
width: 100%;
display: inline-table;
height:60px;                // <-- the rows height 
}

table{
 height:300px;              // <-- Select the height of the table
 display: -moz-groupbox;    // For firefox bad effect
}
tbody{
  overflow-y: scroll;      
  height: 200px;            //  <-- Select the height of the body
  width: 100%;
  position: absolute;
}

Bootply : http://www.bootply.com/AgI8LpDugl

edited Feb 25 '16 at 20:16

answered May 07 '14 at 13:24

BENARD Patrick

30,363
16
99
105

Gayan Kavirathne · Answer 3 · 2019-01-16T04:45:16.450

The simple solution that worked for me as below, wrap the table with a div and change the line-height, this line-height is taken as a ratio.

<div class="col-md-6" style="line-height: 0.5">
                                <table class="table table-striped" >
                                    <thead>
                                    <tr>
                                        <th>Parameter</th>
                                        <th>Recorded Value</th>
                                        <th>Individual Score</th>
                                    </tr>
                                    </thead>
                                    <tbody>
                                    <tr>
                                        <td>Respiratory Rate</td>
                                        <td>Doe</td>
                                        <td>john@example.com</td>
                                    </tr>
                                    <tr>
                                        <td>Respiratory Effort</td>
                                        <td>Moe</td>
                                        <td>mary@example.com</td>
                                    </tr>
                                    <tr>
                                        <td>Oxygon Saturation</td>
                                        <td>Dooley</td>
                                        <td>july@example.com</td>
                                    </tr>
                                    </tbody>
                                </table>
                            </div>

Try changing the value as it fits for you.

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 21 '14 at 16:41

What worked for me was adding a div around the content. Originally i had this. Css applied to the td had no effect.

        <td>           
             @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Message)           
        </td>

Then I wrapped the content in a div and the css worked as expected

       <td>
            <div class="largeContent">
                @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Message)
            </div>
        </td>

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 16 '13 at 14:30

http://jsfiddle.net/isherwood/gfgux

html, body {
    height: 100%;
}
#table-row, #table-col, #table-wrapper {
    height: 80%;
}

<div id="content" class="container">
    <div id="table-row" class="row">
        <div id="table-col" class="col-md-7 col-xs-10 pull-left">
            <p>Hello</p>
            <div id="table-wrapper" class="table-responsive">
                <table class="table table-bordered ">

Giving height to table and row in Bootstrap

5 Answers5

Linked