title: HTML CSS How to stop a table cell from expanding
body: <p>I have a table which is built with the contents coming from a returned dataset.  What I want to do is stop a 'description' cell from expanding over 280px wide, no matter what the content length (its s string).  I have tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;td align="left" valign="top" style="overflow:hidden;" nowrap="nowrap" width="280px" &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this doesn't seem to work.  I don't want it to wrap, nor do I want anything over 280px to be displayed.</p>