Auto Width on cells/columns

Is there a way to auto width a column? I am building report designs on the fly and I have no idea what type of data or how big the data will be in each cell. I am not a css expert, but it seems as though i remember an width="auto" style which would adjust the element based on the data. I am not sure if this was for every element, but I know I have used it before for some elements. Does this exist for BIRT, or is there an alternative.

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mwilliams

Hi arthurj,

I think that the default is for auto width of columns. In HTML, this is automatically sized for the data. In PDF, the widths are the same to ensure that each column will make the page. I don't think that adding a CSS style with AUTO selected as the width will change this. I could be wrong though.