“Disabling” an HTML table with Javascript

Question

I\'ve seen this done in a lot of sites recently, but can\'t seem to track one down. Essentially I want to \"disable\" an entire panel (that\'s in the form on an HTML table) whe

Answer 1

Can't you just find out the height of the area in pixels with JavaScript? And then set the veil's height to that number?

I don't have the exact code in my head but offsetHeight might do the trick