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

> I have a CGI script that builds a table with "WIDTH=100%"

First of all, CGI is an obsolete technology [1].  Use server extensions or 
FastCGI [2] instead.

> There are many paths through the code, but they all required the table
> to be WIDTH=100%

Second, do not do that.  Learn and apply CSS instead [3].
 
> Now, I find that in just one of the paths, it would be better if that
> WIDTH=100% had not been specified.
> 
> Is there any JavaScript that I can insert, after the <TABLE> has
> already been started, which  will remove the effect of the WIDTH=100%

Since the `width' attribute has no specified default value [4], the only 
proper way is to program what you would do manually: remove the attribute.

  elem.removeAttribute("width");

However, if you had used CSS, you could have reset the `width' property to 
its specified initial value [3, 5]:

  elem.style.width = "auto";


PointedEars
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[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface#Drawbacks>
[2] <http://www.fastcgi.com/drupal/>
[3] <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-width>
[4] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#adef-width-TABLE>
[5] <http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style/css.html#CSS-CSS2Properties>
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