Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Swifty wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> However, if you had used CSS, you could have reset the `width' property
>> to its specified initial value [3, 5]:
>>
>>   elem.style.width = "auto";
> 
> I'm happy to convert to CSS if that helps. It means having to make two
> changes, where perhaps one change would have been sufficient. I'm
> under time constraint... I have only 363 working days left in my
> career.

Please read my posting again, and whole this time.

> [snipped autobiography]


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14

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Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 14:04 +0000
  Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-20 06:20 -0800
  Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-01-20 17:04 +0200
    Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-01-20 16:35 +0100
      Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-01-20 19:45 +0200
      Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-01-20 18:49 +0000
    Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-01-22 13:57 -0800
  Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-20 22:17 +0100
    Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-01-21 06:28 +0000
      Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-01-21 11:07 +0000
      Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-21 19:52 +0100
        Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 06:54 +0000
          Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-22 14:06 +0100
            Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-01-22 15:17 +0200
            Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 06:52 +0000
              Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 07:10 +0000
              Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-01-23 16:36 +0100
  Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Dr J R Stockton <reply1203@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-21 20:50 +0000
    Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 06:42 +0000

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