Adjusting Div's Width

[vunet.us]

Hello,
I use a floating div with overflow:auto properties for specific reason
(to avoid the bug of overlapping elements https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=125003).
Anyway, the problem is
that this div has 2 tables inside. In some rare cases, tables may have
larger width than my floating div, which is the container for these
tables, and therefore, scrollbars appear.
I need to remove scrollbars, so I created function to get each tables
clientWidth (I also tried offsetWidth) values and if any table is
larger than its container,
I apply the larger width to the container too.
The problem begins with browser's incompatibility. Sometimes, it still
does not work right. So I am looking for the better solution.
Could you please recommend how I can determine if any tables is larger
than their container and adjust the container (my floating div) to
avoid scrollbars? I'd
really appreciate your suggestions.
Thanks.

[Ben C]

On 2007-07-20, vu******@gmail.com <vu******@gmail.comwrote:

Hello,
I use a floating div with overflow:auto properties for specific reason
(to avoid the bug of overlapping elements https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=125003).
Anyway, the problem is
that this div has 2 tables inside. In some rare cases, tables may have
larger width than my floating div, which is the container for these
tables, and therefore, scrollbars appear.
I need to remove scrollbars, so I created function to get each tables
clientWidth (I also tried offsetWidth) values and if any table is
larger than its container,
I apply the larger width to the container too.
The problem begins with browser's incompatibility. Sometimes, it still
does not work right. So I am looking for the better solution.
Could you please recommend how I can determine if any tables is larger
than their container and adjust the container (my floating div) to
avoid scrollbars? I'd
really appreciate your suggestions.

You probably don't need to resort to JavaScript at all. If you just make
the container width: auto then it will get the width of the wider of the
two tables automatically.