Auto-adjust left navigation width in master page

Question

I am editing the following master page which my current SharePoint site is using (I am using SharePoint 2007 + Windows Server 2008),

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmvj5ijgm3j/BlueBand.master

Currently, I am using the hard-coded value "120" to set the width of the left navigation bar, here is the related code in the master file. How do I set the width of left navigation bar to be automatically changed according to the max length of items on left navigration bar?

<SharePoint:AspMenu ID="CurrentNav" width="120" runat="server" datasourceID="SiteMapDS" orientation="Vertical" StaticDisplayLevels="2" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="0" StaticSubMenuIndent="1" ItemWrap="true" AccessKey="3" CssClass="leftNav" SkipLinkText="<%$Resources:cms,masterpages_skiplinktext%>">

Answer 1

You might want to do this with jQuery on the client side. The trick will be to determine the number of pixels wide required per character given your font family and size choice. Depending on how you are setting your font sizes, you may be able to take advantage of ems, but that would assume that characters are on average as wide as they are tall, which may not be the case with the font family you have chosen.

M.