<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Table dom Column Handling crash</title> <SCRIPT> function doIt() { var t = document.getElementById('t1'); var c1 =document.getElementById('col2'); t.removeChild(c1); } </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY onload="doIt()"> The 2 tables should look the same <table id="t1" bgcolor=orange border> <col width=100> <col width=200> <col id="col2" width=300> <tr> <td>100</td><td>200</td><td>auto</td> </tr> </table> <BR> <table bgcolor=orange border> <col width=100> <col width=200> <tr> <td>100</td><td>200</td><td>auto</td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML>