I stated earlier:"You must mean IE6. I haven't tested in that version, but it does not work in IE7 (returns 0). However, works fine in FireFox 2.0".
The reason I was experiencing this problem was that (and I'm no expert here, so pardon the simple explanation) IE and FireFox process tables (and probably other elements) differently. I believe that FireFox proceses as it receives the information, while IE retrieves all the information before processing the element. Pardon the poor explanation.
What I was trying to do is to have one column adjust its' content (pulled from a database) according to the amount of content in the adjoining column. Setting an alert at the top of the 2nd column showed that, in FireFox, the 1st column was displayed before the alert appeared. In IE7, the alert appeared before any of the table was displayed. I could not get a height and width number in IE7 unless I moved the JavaScript outside of the table, which, of course, was nouse to me.
Thanks for the code, though. I'm sure it will be handy elsewhere.
