Question

Is it possible to smoothly animate the width of a table. Ten percent per second would be a good rate. So that it slowly expands and keeps expanding?

On load
<table id="01" width="80%" height="769">

1 second
<table id="01" width="90%" height="769">

2 second
<table id="01" width="100%" height="769">

3 second
<table id="01" width="110%" height="769">

Answer 1

In JQuery you can chain .animate()s to get what you want:

$('#table').animate({width: '+=' + $(this).width() * 0.1 + 'px'}, 1000).animate({width: '+=' + $(this).width() * 0.1 + 'px'}, 1000).animate({width: '+=' + $(this).width() * 0.1 + 'px'}, 1000).animate({width: '+=' + $(this).width() * 0.1 + 'px'}, 1000);

and if you want to increase the size in one step (ie. without delay):

$('#table').animate({width: $(this).width() * 1.1 + 'px'}, 4000);

Here is a demo.