[thelist] INPUT and SELECT fields disappearing in IE4 but OK in IE5

Joe Crawford wrote:
> >Very odd. I'd bet you a turkey leg this is not related to the code you
posted but rather *OTHER* code on the page in question.
> >Have you isolated this code onto it's own page and and tested it in both
browsers? 
Sure have. The example HTML I sent was a cut down page. You can cut it
down even more by just taking "case 2" which is the one that doesn't
work.

> > You have a habit of quoting everything - could be a missed quote mark and
IE in one case is forgiving, and not in another? 
Mmm. I'll take all the quotes out but I don't think it would help. I'm
using HotMetal 6.0 which appears to be quote happy!

> > Suggestions: - validate the page in <http://validator.w3.org> 
Good idea. I went there and it wants a URL to validat the page, do you
know if you can download this validator so you can run it on pages not
on the web yet (It would be nive to validate a page before making it
live!)

> >Best suggestion: - post the page to evolt! We rock (though I suspect many
of us are still recovering from turkey overload.
I did ! Thats the example I  posted. Regarding your Turkey overload.
Mine is yet to come. Us Britishers don't get Turkey overload until
Christmas day which is only 4 weeks away. "Tis the season to be jolly,
tra-lah-lah-laaaah. Lah lah lah laaaah"

> >Oh - and another thing - the STYLE="width:100%" - this is a cool idea - but
as I look at it - could be causing the problem.
> > I don't know if <input type="text"> will understand a percentage. what
happens if you add a height to it? 
> >http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.4
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html>
> > only shows "size" as a possible attribute of size control. No width. What
happens if you remove the style attribute? 
Mmm. I want my tex boxes to fill the grid vell they are in and reisze
when the user resizes the browser. (Maybe I'm trying to do things with
HTML that it was not intended to do) If I take the STYLE="width:100%"
out it does "work" but the text box then doesn't resize.

Thanks for the help anyway Joe.
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J Kevin L Smith J
KevinS@eurobase-systems.com