Re: Creating tables on the fly using ---> var tbl=document.createElement("table");

From	David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Creating tables on the fly using ---> var tbl=document.createElement("table");
Date	2012-07-06 14:47 -0700
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On Friday, July 6, 2012 11:21:24 AM UTC-4, Bob wrote:
> On Friday, July 6, 2012 1:25:25 AM UTC-4, Bob wrote:
> > Like this
> > 
> >         var tbl=document.createElement("table");
> > 
> > Then I want to make the table width 100% like this
> > 
> >         tbl.setAttribute('width','100%');
> > 
> > It only works some of the time. As I'm dynamically adding rows and cells the table shrinks to a much small width and looks crummy.
> > 
> > Anybody got any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Bob Sweeney
> 
> Can you supply an example of how you would do that?

With CSS (e.g. width: 100%). Or I would set the "width" property (as opposed to using the dreaded setAttribute method).

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Creating tables on the fly using --->   var tbl=document.createElement("table"); Bob <Go1369@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-05 22:25 -0700
  Re: Creating tables on the fly using --->   var tbl=document.createElement("table"); David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-07-05 22:48 -0700
  Re: Creating tables on the fly using --->   var tbl=document.createElement("table"); Bob <Go1369@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-06 08:21 -0700
    Re: Creating tables on the fly using --->   var tbl=document.createElement("table"); David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 14:47 -0700

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