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How to find no of columns in a Table?

Dec 4th, 2003 06:58
Russ Locke, sushil Pan,

1st) assign an id to the table
<table id="countcolumns">
2nd) create your JS function:
function tableColumns() {
  try {
    return document.getElementById("countcolumns").rows[0].cells.length;
  }
  catch(e) { return 0; } // table has no rows - therefore no columns
}