I'm building a web-based book catalog. One of the functions I have builds a form of a few hard-coded fields (I will use mappings later, but that's not important). The formatting is done by placing each field in a box with its title and <input ...> , using <table bgcolor=...> tags.

Now, I order the boxes with a table, and all goes in a 3 collumn main table, in the middle.
The problem is when the fields overflow the size of the middle column, they push the rest aside, making it bigger than the screen.

so I'm looking for a way to determine the user's screen size and build the table with a matching number of rows.

I thought of using javasript to transfer the window.width in the URL, as a parameter.

any better way?

In reply to (OT) Use javascript? ahhh!!! by yosefm

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