[thelist] FW: problems with text field sizing and ie 5.5

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 6 13:54:33 CST 2000


>I'm trying to create a contact form for users to submit questions. Still
>designing the layout, etc and am having incredible problems with the width
>of the textarea field.  Nav 4.72, Nav6 correctly display, but ie 5.5 just
>makes the darn thing too wide (it just ignores what I tell it)

Use style sheets:

<INPUT SIZE=20  NAME etc>

input {width: 200px;}

The SIZE is for NN4, the style sheet for all other browsers. Fiddle with 
them until you get approximately the same result in all browsers.

ppk

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