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

[Jason E. Burk]

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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