I believe I have found a bug in IE8; it's possible that it's something jQuery is doing, but I really doubt it. I'm only cross-posting this here in the hopes that someone can suggest a workaround, because I have tried everything I can think of.
A code sample is available here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/f265c5b1-a45d-4949-85b2-86a97a884dc1 The issue I'm seeing is that changing the contents of a table cell in IE8 randomly causes the width of the td element to change. In the code sample above, I'm using toggle and replacing the content with an input element, but I have tried using just a click handler and inserting something as simple as another string of text. In every combination of styles and script I have tried, I'm still able to get IE8 to randomly change the width of td elements when their contents change. I have tried using jQuery to force the td width back to the correct value, but that doesn't seem to do anything. (Of course, the code behaves fine in both Firefox and Chrome.) So, anyone have any suggestions on what to try? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated since I'm basically out of ideas.
