Tables at difficult beasts, they're built to expand with their content. If you want an image that is in a table cell to (appear) to expand over the top of (and outside the bounds of) the cell then you'll have to something like:
- duplicate the image element - insert the duplicate image outside the table - position the duplicate image absolutely over the top of the cell/image Karl Rudd On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:52 AM, vani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for replying, but I'm still having trouble making it work. I > tried to set the table to relative and img to absolute but it didn't > work as intended. > This is the layout of the table: > <table> > <tr> > <td><div><img /></div></td> > <td><div><img /></div></td> > <td><div><img /></div></td> > </tr> > </table> > > ...I'm trying to resize the img elements. > > On 19 stu, 18:15, Liam Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> use absolute positioning and set the parent element to relative. >> >> >> >> vani wrote: >> > Is it possible to create an animated resize of an element without >> > affecting the layout of the parent element table? >> > I'm using jQuery 1.2.6 and possibly personalized jQuery UI, if >> > necessary.