detect the widest cell w/ jQuery

Question

I have a table with different values. First column contains labels. I need to get the width of the widest label. I assume I need some sort of a loop, but then what?

Answer 1

This should work - it will go through each of the tds (in myTable) and find the widest:

var widest = 0;
$("#myTable tr td:first").each(function()
{
     widest = ($(this).width() > widest) : $(this).width() : widest;
});

alternatively:

var widest = 0;
$("#myTable tr td:first").each(function()
{
     if($(this).width() > widest){
         widest = $(this).width()
     }
});