Question

The title should sum it up pretty well…

In this fiddle, when you press the “switch” text, the jQuery creates a duplicate header in place of the original. The only thing wrong (for now) is that the input field moves to the right.

How can I stop this?

jQuery code for reference (Stack Overflow doesn’t like no code):

function duplicate(){
    var w = $('#old').find('tr:last').find('td').map(function(index){
        return $(this).outerWidth();
    }).get();
    var newth = $('#oldHead').find('th').map(function(){
        return $(this).text();
    }).get();
    for (var i = 0; i < newth.length; i++){
        if (i<1){
            $('<span>' + newth[i] + '</span>').appendTo('#new');
        } else {
            $('<span style="width:' + (w[i] - 20) + 'px">' + newth[i] + '</span>').appendTo('#new > #newfloat');
        }
    }
    $('#oldHead').find('tr').remove();
    $('#oldBody').find('tr:first').find('td').each(function(index){
        $(this).css({'width': w[index] + 'px'});
    });
}

$('#switch').click(function(){
    duplicate();
});

Answer 1

The issue was resolved with a min-width property on the offending td tags – as well as removing the left and right padding.

http://jsfiddle.net/verism/s7VBu/

If anyone knows of any pitfalls this may invoke, I’d be interested to hear.