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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:52:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: Shrinking the width of a WIDTH=100% table
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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