Setting table column width?

[Tim Ward]

Where col is a <colelement:

col.style.width = "27px";

works fine on Firefox but not on IE. How do you set a column width in IE?
(If it matters, the <colis not one that was present in HTML, it was
created in the Javascript.)

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Tim Ward
www.brettward.co.uk

[Martin Honnen]

Tim Ward wrote:

Where col is a <colelement:

col.style.width = "27px";

works fine on Firefox but not on IE. How do you set a column width in IE?

col.width = "27"
should work with Firefox, IE and other browsers.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Tim Ward]

"Martin Honnen" <ma*******@yahoo.dewrote in message
news:48***********************@newsspool1.arcor-online.net...

Tim Ward wrote:

>Where col is a <colelement:

col.style.width = "27px";

works fine on Firefox but not on IE. How do you set a column width in IE?

col.width = "27"
should work with Firefox, IE and other browsers.

Like all the other things I've tried, it works with Firefox and not IE.

--
Tim Ward
www.brettward.co.uk

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Tim Ward wrote:

"Martin Honnen" <ma*******@yahoo.dewrote [...]:

>Tim Ward wrote:

>>Where col is a <colelement:

col.style.width = "27px";

works fine on Firefox but not on IE. How do you set a column width in IE?

col.width = "27"
should work with Firefox, IE and other browsers.

Like all the other things I've tried, it works with Firefox and not IE.

AFAIK, MSHTML does not support the `col' element for formatting table
columns due to its non-standard box model.

However, "Does not work" is a useless error description. [psf 4.11]
PointedEars
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[Tim Ward]

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <Po*********@web.dewrote in message
news:48**************@PointedEars.de...

AFAIK, MSHTML does not support the `col' element for formatting table
columns due to its non-standard box model.

Yeah, I've given up on using <tableand am setting out a table using <div>
and <span>, then changing column widths by scripting the style sheet. That
works.

--
Tim Ward
www.brettward.co.uk

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Tim Ward wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <Po*********@web.dewrote [...]:

>AFAIK, MSHTML does not support the `col' element for formatting table
columns due to its non-standard box model.

Yeah, I've given up on using <tableand am setting out a table using <div>
and <span>, then changing column widths by scripting the style sheet. That
works.

It is the wrong approach, though, unless you do not have tabular data there.
PointedEars
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evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
madness: XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
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[Laser Lips]

On Sep 16, 2:30*pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Tim Ward wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <[e-mail] [...]:

AFAIK, MSHTML does not support the `col' element for formatting table
columns due to its non-standard box model.

Yeah, I've given up on using <tableand am setting out a table using <div>
and <span>, then changing column widths by scripting the style sheet. That
works.

It is the wrong approach, though, unless you do not have tabular data there.

PointedEars
--
* * realism: * *HTML 4.01 Strict
* * evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
* * madness: * *XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

Try using col.offsetWidth=27;

[Conrad Lender]

On 2008-09-16 16:43, Laser Lips wrote:

Try using col.offsetWidth=27;

Try it yourself, and tell us if it worked.
Hint: offsetWidth is a readonly property.
- Conrad