get containing table width

[Marc Lambrichs]

I want to dynamically (cross-browser) read the width of the table a td
element belongs to. Any ideas?

Cheers,

 

[DU]

I want to dynamically (cross-browser) read the width of the table a td
element belongs to. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Assuming
<td id="idTableCell" ...>
then

var WidthOfTable =
document.getElementById("idTableCell").offsetParent.offsetWidth;

should work in MSIE 6 for Windows in standards compliant rendering mode,
Mozilla-based browsers (17 browsers) and Opera 7.x

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