[Javascript] aligning table columns

[Paul Novitski]

Dave,

I can see your perspective and agree with it in certain contexts, although 
in other cases I want to delegate table-rendering to the browser -- I just 
want to be able to go in after the fact, read cell widths accurately, and 
tweak them programmatically.

I'm still looking for illumination on the differences between the .width, 
.offsetWidth, and .pixelWidth values.  Can anyone explain or send me to a 
good resource?

Thanks,

Paul


At 10:54 AM 2/11/2004, David Lovering wrote:
>I am also of the "fixed" column width school. After all, it is the variation
>between browsers that causes "creep" and border boundaries to wiggle about
>when viewing tables of variable content.  Also, this approach neatly
>dispenses with the ghastly "splines" that packages like Fireworks/FrontPage
>churn out, requiring literally thousands of niggly files to complete a web
>page.  (Ugh!)  The only caution I would care to add is to make sure that the
>physical dimensions of an element are sufficient to house the largest
>allowable content for it.  [This is where validation can serve two
>purposes].
>
>-- Dave Lovering