[javascript] Appearance of Form Elements

[Chris Basken]

simple CSS works fine on NS4.x (stuff like: setting the font face, size,
color, page background color, etc...).  you can use these without much fear.

positional CSS is unstable (absolute positioning of images, paragraphs,
divs, spans, etc).  the biggest headache is that NS considers any
absolutely-positioned element as its own document object, so any references
to an object inside such an element needs to be referenced
(document.layers[foo].document.forms[bar], etc).  this gets ugly with nested
elements.

form appearance CSS -- which i think is at the core of your question -- is
almost totally unsupported in NS 4.x.


> Sorry Alan, I have no idea on how it performs in Netscape as it is company
> policy here to not install NS on the basis that it is a steaming
> pile of dog
> turd. :)
>
> I wish you all the success in making it cross-browser compatible.
>
>  .b
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Easton" <alan.easton at unn.ac.uk>
> To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:50 PM
> Subject: RE: [javascript] Appearance of Form Elements
>
>
> > Thanks Ben....Do you know how well the style sheet performs in NN4.7 and
> > Nets 6
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben [mailto:ben at babelfish.co.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:38 PM
> > To: javascript
> > Subject: Re: [javascript] Appearance of Form Elements
> >
> >
> > Use CSS.
> >
> > Here:
> >
> > .clsFormField
> > {
> >  font-family:Tahoma;
> >  font-size:8pt;
> >  color:#000000;
> >  border:#CCCCCC solid thin;
> >  padding-top:3px;
> >  padding-left:3px;
> >  padding-right:3px;
> >  padding-bottom:3px;
> >  height:24px;
> > }
> >
> > example:
> >
> > <input type="text" class="clsFormField" name="txtUsername"
> id="txtUsername"
> > size="30" maxlength="50">
> >
> > hth,
> >
> >  .b
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Easton" <alan.easton at unn.ac.uk>
> > To: "'Java-List'" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:26 PM
> > Subject: [javascript] Appearance of Form Elements
> >
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to change the
> appearance of form
> > > elements. I would like to try and change the normal textarea or input
> box
> > in
> > > a form. You know how they look, embedded into the page, I was
> wondering
> if
> > > there was any method of changing their look on a page.
> > >
> > > Hope this is clear, and thanks for any guidance.
> > >
> > > Alan Easton...
> > > mailto:alan.easton at unn.ac.uk
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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