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). 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
cllientWidth values and if any table is larger than its container,
apply the same width to the container too or floating div as I called
it.
The problem begins with browser's incompatibility. Sometimes, it still
does not work right. So I figured this is not the best solution.
Could you please recommend a better solution if it occurs to you? I'd
really appreciate your suggestions.
Thanks.

[David Mark]

[e-mail] wrote:
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offsetWidth may be working better but it still is not a solution. The
result is the same. I thought of applying width:auto to expand width
automatically and then measure that new width and make it fixed. But
then the width could have become terribly wide.

Why don't you post your code? width:auto is clearly not the answer in
a scrolling container (not to mention IE doesn't like it.) Post your
tags and code and perhaps somebody can help you. Everything is a shot
in the dark at this point and I suspect you are trying to solve the
wrong problem anyway.