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

lon.kraemer lwkraemer at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 6 20:10:56 CST 2000


I was playing with this. Had one text input and then a submit button... both
on one line, great!

I then added style="width: 60px;" to the text input tag and found NN4 broke
the submit button into a new line.

Where'd that BR come from?

<FORM ACTION="yada" METHOD="post">
<input type="text" name="name" size="4" style="width: 60px;">
<input type="submit" name="login" value="Log In" >
</FORM>

* code was ALL on ONE line!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Hehl" <eric at thaitec.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] FW: problems with text field sizing and ie 5.5


> Thanks to everyone for the help on the field problem ...
>
> After four hours of sleep, I tried tackling the problem again using some
of
> the suggestions posted here.  Still no luck, so I decided that rather than
> hunt around for a needle in a haystack, I'd just recode the page.  Took a
> few minutes, but the problem is gone.  All I can figure is that I had a
tag
> sitting around somewhere which was influencing the textarea field size.  I
> checked in my style sheets, but that didn't turn up anything.  Real
> confusing, since it only affected one field out of the three that were
> present.  Anyhoo ... problem's all gone so I'm thinking that today just
> might be a productive day ...
>
> My thanks to everyone who tried to help. Insightful and informative - you
> gave me plenty of other things to consider for future projects :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Jason E. Burk
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:25 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] FW: problems with text field sizing and ie 5.5
>
>
> wow.  i might actually have contributed something there.  and maybe again:
>
> Eric Hehl wrote:
>
> > I saved a page from amazon.com which was loaded with forms, deleted all
> but
> > 3 input boxes and recreated my form. Everything worked fine (sizes
stayed
> > the same across browsers, and in DW).  Yet when I cut-n-paste the code
> into
> > my template, BOOM!, same old problem.  Soo, I'm working on a theory that
> it
> > has something to do with tags that I've placed on my page.  Somewhere,
> > there's a formatting tag which is causing this error--but I'll be d*mned
> if
> > I can figure out which one(s).
>
> very recently a message was posted regarding the placement of your <form>
> tags
> and how it was important to keep the form tags outside of nested
tables...i
> honestly don't recall the exact recommendation, but i CAN say that it
helped
> me
> with the page i was working on because suddenly, once i placed the <form>
> tags
> completely outside of my tables, the input boxes would align properly.
ok.
> poor example.  but the point is:
>
> perhaps you can try moving the <form> tags around so that they either
> encompass
> the entire page or just simply the form itself...or [notice how i'm
throwing
> these words out of my bum] place the respective text areas in a form tag
all
> by
> themselves and write some javascript function can squash the contents into
> each
> named form into one mega form that then responds to the respective action
a
> user
> takes.
>
> i am no expert on forms, and quite honestly in my situation, the alignment
> of
> the text areas doesn't matter and i'm not willing to spend time figuring
it
> out
> at the moment, but it seems that the placement of the <form> tags really
> alters
> the way a form is rendered in the browser, and that's where i would first
> look
> -- especially if you have that original "template" from which you were
> working.
>
> hth.
>
> jason
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