Giving a div an adjustable width.

Hello,

You cant make a div do that. Is the inner container always going to have that width? Cant you just give the outer container a width of say 640px

Thanks

So you can do it with height but not width? I guess the only way to do it would be to make your container a one cell table. Is that considered to old-fashioned to do nowadays?

John

*Unless a div is given a width it will always be as wide as it can be

I could write u a little javascript if u want

Yes please, a javascript would be great!

I stumbled upon a stupidly simple solution that works in Firefox, Chrome and Safari, and almost works in Opera: give container the style "display:table" as Kravimir suggested, AND a width less than its child. (display:table alone doesn't work, at least not for me).
  Of course it doesn't work at all in IE, but it's very tantalizing, so I'm wondering if it triggers something in you that would be an all-purpose answer.  Here's what I mean: http://www.discretedata.com/JCPortfolio/testAuto2.html

Thanks,
John