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

[Eric Hehl]

<apology> sorry if this get's double-posted - I just noticed a problem with
my contacts db and corrected it </apology>

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)

Here's a snippet which works on the sizing of the fields.


  <td align="right"><font size="-1">*&nbsp;Your Name </font></td>
      <td align="left">
        <input type="text" name="name" size="40">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="right"><font size="-1">*&nbsp;Your email </font></td>
      <td align="left">
        <input type="text" name="email" size="40">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td align="right" valign="top"><font size="-1">&nbsp;&nbsp;Your
Comments</font></td>
      <td align="left">
        <textarea name="comment" rows=5 cols=40 wrap=virtual></textarea>

Any thoughts on how to correct this.  It might be necessary for me to detect
browsers and code in a fix for ie. It this is what's requiered, what are the
proper tags to smack ie into listening?

Thanks in advance,

Eric