Question

I can’t figure out how to expand a td width beyond the size of the container. To see what I mean, check out this jsFiddle.

Once the table fills the container width, I can’t make the cells any wider. Provided I need to do it after the page has loaded, how would I go about doing this?

I don’t really want to resize the containing div.

Answer 1

You can expand the size of the table (not the outer div):
http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/dkXtw/15/

$("#testTable").width($("#testTable").width()  + 100 );