CSS table-cell equal width

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Here is a working fiddle with indeterminate number of cells: http://jsfiddle.net/r9yrM/1/

You can fix a width to each parent div (the table), otherwise it’ll be 100% as usual.

The trick is to use table-layout: fixed; and some width on each cell to trigger it, here 2%. That will trigger the other table algorightm, the one where browsers try very hard to respect the dimensions indicated.
Please test with Chrome (and IE8- if needed). It’s OK with a recent Safari but I can’t remember the compatibility of this trick with them.

CSS (relevant instructions):

div {
  display: table;
  width: 250px;
  table-layout: fixed;
}

div > div {
  display: table-cell;
  width: 2%; /* or 100% according to OP comment. See edit about Safari 6 below */
}

EDIT (2013): Beware of Safari 6 on OS X, it has table-layout: fixed; wrong (or maybe just different, very different from other browsers. I didn’t proof-read CSS2.1 REC table layout 😉 ). Be prepared to different results.

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