column-sizing

What is the best way to implement 'Excel like column sizing' for an HTML table?

Basically, I want to allow the user to resize columns in an HTML table, using the same method as you would in Excel. Drag the space between columns and size. I did some research on this last year, and found a few hacks and kludges. Most were pretty bad, and I didn't find anything really good. Now, it looks like I need to implement th...

How can I set a <td> width to visually truncate its displayed contents?

I'm trying to set a column width of a table, which works fine until it gets to the point where child elements would be visually truncated ... then it won't size any smaller. ("visually truncated"-what doesn't fit appears to be hidden behind the next column) Here is some sample code to demonstrate my problem: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//...