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

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2012-01-20 16:04, Swifty wrote:

> Is there any JavaScript that I can insert, after the <TABLE>  has
> already been started, which will remove the effect of the WIDTH=100%

Yes. I suppose you have considered the obvious solution of not writing 
WIDTH=100% for a specific table, and I suppose the reason for rejecting 
that idea is in the logic of your server-side code: you're in the midst 
of writing data when you find out that something should have been done 
earlier.

Using JavaScript, you could change the width property of the <table> 
element. For this, you could e.g. emit an empty <span> element with an 
id so that appears inside a cell of the table, then traverse the 
document tree upwards until you find the <table> element:

<table width="100%" border>
<tr><td>Hello world <td>Hello again
<tr><td>Foo <td> Bar
<span id="foo"></span>
<script>
var el = document.getElementById('foo');
do {
   el = el.parentNode;
   } while (el.tagName != 'TABLE');
el.width = '';
</script>
</table>

(So the <span> and <script> elements are what you would need to add to 
the generated markup. The identifier 'foo' can be anything as long as it 
is unique within the document.)

> I'm open to a CSS solution as well, but there are other tables in the
> same page which must remain WIDTH=100% so it would have to be specific
> to just this one table.

You cannot validly emit CSS code that would affect the table that has 
been started. No style attribute can do that. A <style> element would, 
but it's invalid in <body> (though browsers allow it, to the extent that 
it might even be declared a feature). And to make a CSS rule apply to a 
specific table, you would probably need a class attribute on it, but I 
suppose it would be too late to emit one.

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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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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