>I think I understand what you are saying, but, it's Monday and I need an extra jab for this to sink in. Could you please expand on this idea possibly with some sample code? I guess I'm stuck on determining how to translate a tables td width to the textareas cols.

This assumes you have an event on the page that will fire on resizing.

You would first need to assign an ID to your table container and to the textarea field.

Then, on resize, your javascript might do something like this:

document.getElementById("TextArea").style.width=
 document.getElementById("Table").clientWidth-8

This assumes that you have placed your textarea inside your table with a 4 pixels margin. Thus, this is why I am removing 8 pixels in order to have it centered in your table on resize.