TinyMCE width and height disobedient!

Question

According to the (conflicting) documentation of TinyMCE, the editor takes on the size of the textarea (or other) element that it replaces. It also says that you can set the

Answer 1

I noticed that a containing table was enforcing widths, and also the icon set are td's, so there's a minimum width they'll collapse down to, so if you have many icons in a single row - it could be messing all over your widths.

Sort of related SO question of mine, ended up being quite related to your problem: Able to float td elements consistently?