hi, I'm trying to set the width of an element, a table for example by using javascript. problem is I know hardly anything of javascript I figured it would have to be something like this: part in body: <table width="getwidth();"><tr><td>table content</td></tr></table> part in head: <script type="text/javascript"> function getwidth() { *code to determine value*; return *value*; } </script> but apparently this isn't working... can somebody help me out here? thanks!

It's better be like this: <script type="text/javascript"> function setTableWidth() { var theTable = document.getElementById('theTable'); theTable.style.width = '500px'; } window.onload = function() { setTableWidth(); } </script> </head> ... and you put the id to the table below <table id="theTable"> <tr> ... and if you're going to do lotsa javascripts you can use some popular library like this or this for syntax-simplifying and crossbrowserability.

ok, thx! works now^^