How to limit HTML table width to 95% of the screen width?

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How to limit HTML table width to 95% of the screen width?I'm using\[code\]<style type="text/css">table { max-width:95%; border-collapse:collapse; ...}...\[/code\]but the resultant HTML page has the table wider than the screen width (a 1440x900 screen) and a scroll bar appear at the bottom of page.