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

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[Martin Honnen]

Re: Setting table column width?

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

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[Tim Ward]

Re: Setting table column width?

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yaho o.dewrote in message
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Tim Ward wrote:

>Where col is a <colelement:
>>
>col.style.widt h = "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.

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Tim Ward

https://www.brettward.co.uk

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Setting table column width?

Tim Ward wrote:

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yaho o.dewrote [...]:

>Tim Ward wrote:

>>Where col is a <colelement:
>>>
>>col.style.wid th = "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]


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[Tim Ward]

Re: Setting table column width?

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedEars@we b.dewrote in message
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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.

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Tim Ward

https://www.brettward.co.uk

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Setting table column width?

Tim Ward wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedEars@we b.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.


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[Laser Lips]

Re: Setting table column width?

On Sep 16, 2:30 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@we b.de>
wrote:

Tim Ward wrote:

"Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" <PointedE...@we b.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
--
    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]

Re: Setting table column width?

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