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JavaScript Examples Bible: The Essential Companion to JavaScript Bible
Examples Highlights
✦ Scripts can adjust the value of a TABLE object’s width property, including
switching between a fixed pixel size and a percentage of the table container’s
width.
✦ Compare the examples for the IE5/Windows TABLE.cells property and the
TR.cells property for IE4+ and NN6.
✦ Follow the example for the TD.colSpan property to observe how a table
responds to such changes in real time.
✦ Examples for list-related elements show how to set the list types for scriptgenerated
lists.
TABLE Element Object
TABLE.background
Properties
align
NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3/J1 IE3/J2 IE4 IE5 IE5.5
Compatibility ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Example
Use The Evaluator (Chapter 13 in the JavaScript Bible) to see the align property
at work. The default value (left) is in force when the page loads. But you can shift
the table to right-align with the body by entering the following statement into the
top text box for IE5+ and NN6+:
document.getElementById(“myTable”).align = “right”
background
NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3/J1 IE3/J2 IE4 IE5 IE5.5
Compatibility ✓ ✓ ✓
Example
Treat the background property of a table like you do the src property of an IMG
element object. If you precache an image, you can assign the src property of the
precached image object to the background property of the table for quick image
changing. Such an assignment statement looks like the following:
document.all.myTable.background = imgArray[“myTableAlternate”].src