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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">&lt;COL&gt;</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">3</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">&lt;COL&gt;</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">HTML End Tag: Forbidden&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The <span class="literal">col</span> element provides shortcuts to assigning
widths and other characteristics (styles) to one or more subsets of
columns within a table or within a table's column
group. With this information appearing early in the
<span class="literal">table</span> element, a browser equipped to do so starts
rendering the table before all source code for the table has loaded
(the time at which it would otherwise perform all of its geographical
calculations).
</p><p>You can use the <span class="literal">col</span> element in combination with
the <span class="literal">colgroup</span> element or by itself. The structure
depends on how you need to assign widths and styles to individual
columns or contiguous columns. A <span class="literal">col</span> element can
apply to multiple contiguous columns. By assigning an integer value
to the <span class="literal">span</span> attribute, you direct the browser to
apply the <span class="literal">col</span> element's width or
style settings to said number of contiguous columns. The
<span class="literal">span</span> attribute is similar to the
<span class="literal">colgroup</span> element's
<span class="literal">colspan</span> attribute. In concert with the
<span class="literal">colgroup</span> element, the <span class="literal">col</span>
element allows you to create a kind of subset of related columns
within a <span class="literal">colgroup</span> set.
</p><p>No matter how you address the column structure of your table, the
total number of columns defined in all <span class="literal">col</span> and
<span class="literal">colgroup</span> elements should equal the physical number
of columns you intend for the table. The following three skeletal
examples specify HTML 4 tables with six columns:
</p>
<span class="PROGRAMLISTING"><pre>&lt;table&gt;
&lt;col span=&quot;6&quot;&gt;
...
&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;table&gt;
&lt;col&gt;
&lt;col span=&quot;4&quot;&gt;
&lt;col&gt;
...
&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;table&gt;
&lt;colgroup&gt;
&lt;col span=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;
&lt;colgroup span=&quot;4&quot;&gt;
...
&lt;/table&gt;</pre></span>

<p>HTML 4 specifications for the <span class="literal">col</span> element exceed
the implementation in IE and Navigator through Version 6. For
example, HTML 4 provides for alignment within a column to be around
any character, such as the decimal point of a money amount. This kind
of feature adds to the rationale behind the <span class="literal">col</span>
element. For example, you can have a table whose first three columns
are formatted one way, and fourth column is assigned a special style
with its own alignment characteristics:
</p>
<span class="PROGRAMLISTING"><pre>&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
  .colHdrs {color:black}
  .normColumn {color:green}
  .priceColumn {color:red}
&lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
&lt;colgroup class=&quot;normColumn&quot; span=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/colgroup&gt;
&lt;col class=&quot;priceColumn&quot; align=&quot;char&quot; char=&quot;.&quot;&gt;
&lt;thead class=&quot;colHdrs&quot;&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Stock No.&lt;th&gt;In Stock&lt;th&gt;Description&lt;th&gt;Price&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;8832&lt;td&gt;Yes&lt;td&gt;Brass Frobnitz&lt;td&gt;$255.98&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;8835&lt;td&gt;No&lt;td&gt;Frobnitz (black)&lt;td&gt;$98&lt;/tr&gt;
...
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;</pre></span>
<p>Because attributes of the <span class="literal">col</span> and
<span class="literal">colgroup</span> elements apply to the entire column, in
the preceding example the style sheet rule for the
<span class="literal">thead</span> overrides the color settings for the two
column styles for the rows enclosed by the <span class="literal">thead</span>
element. The preceding example works in IE 4 and later for Windows,
except for the alignment of the final column, which is ignored.
</p><p>Support indicated here for Netscape 6 is based on the
browser's DOM implementation. The DOM reports to
scripts that the <span class="literal">col</span> element and its attributes
exist (reflected as properties). But as of Netscape 7, the element
does not perform its intended tasks. A later version will likely
connect the element's internal wiring.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;COL class="dateCols" width="15" align="right"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>)</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Element-Specific Attributes</span></td>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">align</span></td><td><span class="literal">ch</span></td><td><span class="literal">char</span></td><td><span class="literal">charoff</span></td><td><span class="literal">choff</span></td>
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								<tr><td><span class="literal">span</span></td><td><span class="literal">valign</span></td><td><span class="literal">width</span></td><td></td><td></td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Element-Specific Event Handler Attributes</span></td>
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					<td><p>None.</p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">align</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">3</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">align="<span class="replaceable">alignConstant</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Establishes the horizontal alignment characteristics of content
within column(s) covered by the <span class="literal">col</span> element. The
HTML 4 specification defines some values for the
<span class="literal">align</span> attribute that are not yet reflected in the
CSS specification. For example, there is no CSS equivalent for the
alignment by character. See the <span class="literal">col</span> element
description about Netscape 6 compatibility.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;COL class="dateCols" width="15" align="right"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>HTML 4 and IE have two sets of attribute values.</p><p>The values <span class="literal">center</span>, <span class="literal">left</span>, and
<span class="literal">right</span> are self-explanatory (and may be replicated
through the CSS <span class="literal">text-align</span> attribute). The value
<span class="literal">justify</span> is intended to space content so that text
is justified down both left and right edges. For the value
<span class="literal">char</span>, the <span class="literal">char</span> attribute must
also be set to specify the character on which alignment revolves.
</p><p>It is important to bear in mind that the <span class="literal">align</span>
attribute applies to every row of every column spanned by a
<span class="literal">col</span> element, including any <span class="literal">th</span>
element you specify for the table. If you want a different alignment
for the column header, override the setting with a separate
<span class="literal">align</span> attribute or <span class="literal">text-align</span>
style sheet attribute for the <span class="literal">thead</span> or individual
<span class="literal">th</span> elements.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p><span class="literal">left</span></p>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).align</pre>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">char</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">char="<span class="replaceable">character</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The <span class="literal">char</span> attribute defines the text character used
as an alignment point for text within a column. This attribute is of
value only for the <span class="literal">align</span> attribute set to
<span class="literal">"char"</span>. Microsoft documents a
<span class="literal">ch</span> attribute, which corresponds to the
standards-based <span class="literal">char</span> attribute. In any case, the
browser does not respond to either attribute. Netscape 7 has not yet
connected support for the <span class="literal">char</span> attribute.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;COL class="priceColumn" align="char" char="."&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Any single text character.</p>
					</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><p>None. </p>
					</td>
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		</div><div id="charoff">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">charoff</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">charoff="<span class="replaceable">length</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The <span class="literal">charoff</span> attribute lets you set a specific
offset point at which the character specified by the
<span class="literal">char</span> attribute is to appear within a cell. This
attribute is provided in case the browser default positioning does
not meet with the design goals of the table. Microsoft documents a
<span class="literal">choff</span> attribute, which corresponds to the
standards-based <span class="literal">charoff</span> attribute. In any case,
the browser does not respond to either attribute. Netscape 7 has not
yet connected support for the <span class="literal">charoff</span> attribute.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;COL class="priceColumn" align="char" char="." charoff="80%"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><p>Any length value in pixels or percentage of cell space.</p>
					</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><p>None. </p>
					</td>
				</tr>
			</table>
		</div><div id="choff">
			<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="main">
				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">choff</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal"></p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>See charoff. </p>
					</td>
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		</div>
		<div id="lang">
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						<tr><td valign="top" class="name">lang</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">3</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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							<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">lang="<span class="replaceable">languageCode</span>"</p>
							</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The language being used for the element's attribute
		values and content. A browser can use this information to assist in
		proper rendering of content with respect to details such as treatment
		of ligatures (when supported by a particular font or required by a
		written language), quotation marks, and hyphenation. Other
		applications and search engines might use this information to aid the
		selection of spell-checking dictionaries and the creation of indices.
		</p>
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							<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;SPAN lang="de"&gt;Deutsche Bundesbahn&lt;/SPAN&gt;</pre>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
						</tr>
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							<td><p>Case-insensitive language code.</p>
							</td>
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							<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
						</tr>
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							<td><p>Browser default.</p>
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							<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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							<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID).</span>lang</pre>
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		</div>
		<div id="span">
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">span="<span class="replaceable">columnCount"</span></p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Defines the number of adjacent columns for which the
<span class="literal">col</span> element's attribute and style
settings apply. If this attribute is missing, the
<span class="literal">col</span> element governs a single column. You can
combine multiple <span class="literal">col</span> elements of different
<span class="literal">span</span> sizes as needed for your column subgrouping.
See the <span class="literal">col</span> element description about Netscape 6
compatibility.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
				</tr>
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				</tr>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;COL span="3"&gt;</pre>
						</span></td>
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				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><p>Integer value greater than zero.</p>
					</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><p><span class="literal">1</span></p>
					</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).span</pre>
						</span></td>
				</tr>
			</table>
		</div><div id="valign">
			<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="main">
				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">valign</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">valign="<span class="replaceable">alignmentConstant</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Determines the vertical alignment of content within cells of the
column(s) covered by the <span class="literal">col</span> element. You can
override the vertical alignment for a particular cell anywhere in the
column. See the <span class="literal">col</span> element description about
Netscape 6 compatibility.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;COL valign="middle"&gt;</pre>
						</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><p>Four constant values are recognized by both IE 4 and later for
Windows and HTML 4: <span class="literal">top</span> |
<span class="literal">middle</span> | <span class="literal">bottom</span> |
<span class="literal">baseline</span>. With <span class="literal">top</span> and
<span class="literal">bottom</span>, the content is rendered flush (or very
close to it) to the top and bottom of the table cell. Set to
<span class="literal">middle</span> (the default), the content floats perfectly
centered vertically in the cell. When one cell's
contents might wrap to multiple lines at common window widths
(assuming a variable table width), it is advisable to set the
<span class="literal">valign</span> attributes of all cells in the same row (or
all <span class="literal">col</span> elements) to <span class="literal">baseline</span>.
This assures that the character baseline of the first (or only) line
of a cell's text aligns with the other cells in the
rowusually the most aesthetically pleasing arrangement.
</p>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><p><span class="literal">middle</span></p>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).vAlign</pre>
						</span></td>
				</tr>
			</table>
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			<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="main">
				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">width</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
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					<td colspan="2" class="divider"><img src="dwres:18084" width="100%" height="1"></td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">width="<span class="replaceable">multiLength</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Defines the maximum width for the column(s) covered by the
<span class="literal">col</span> element. In practice (in IE 4 and later for
Windows, anyway), the browser won't render a column
narrower than the widest contiguous stretch of characters not
containing whitespace (e.g., the longest word). The precise measure
of such a column width, of course, depends on the font
characteristics of the content, as well. See the
<span class="literal">col</span> element description about Netscape 6
compatibility.
</p>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;COL width="100"&gt;</pre>
						</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><p>Internet Explorer accepts length values for the
<span class="literal">width</span> in the form of pixel measures (without the
"px" unit) or percentage of
available horizontal space allocated to the entire table
(<span class="literal">width="25%"</span>).
</p><p>The HTML 4 specification introduces an additional length measurement
scheme to supplement the regular length measure. Called a
proportional length (also <span class="literal">MultiLength</span>), this
format features a special notation and geometry. It is best suited
for situations in which a <span class="literal">col</span> element is to be
sized based on the available width of the table space after all fixed
length and percentage lengths are calculated. Using the proportional
length notation (a number followed by an asterisk), you can direct
the browser to divide any remaining space according to proportion.
For example, if there is enough horizontal space on the page for 100
pixels after all other column width calculations are performed, three
<span class="literal">col</span> elements might specify
<span class="literal">width</span> attributes of <span class="literal">1*</span>,
<span class="literal">3*</span>, and <span class="literal">1*</span>. This adds up to a
total of five proportional segments. The 100 available pixels are
handed out to the proportional columns based on their proportion to
the whole of the remaining space: 20, 60, and 20 pixels,
respectively.
</p>
					</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td><p>Determined by browser calculation. </p>
					</td>
				</tr>
			</table>
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