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

[Eric Hehl]

Thanks James,

I think with everyone's help I'm on the right track ...

However, IE still refuses to respond to any value I set - it sets the
textarea to an overly-wide value no matter what I try to do.  At this point,
I think I'm going to take a break and catch a few zzz's (4am here in
Bangkok).  Maybe A fresh perspective tomorrow will help.  Barring that, I'll
recode the page and see if I can find out what errant tags are causing this
prob.

Thanks everyone for the help,

Eric

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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Aylard JA (James)
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 2:47 AM
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Subject: RE: [thelist] FW: problems with text field sizing and ie 5.5


Eric,

> 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?

	Nav and IE assume different values for the width of a character in
form elements, resulting in different element widths even with the same cols
or width value (depending on the element). Using ASP or Cold Fusion, for
instance, you could insert a different cols value depending on the browser
type. But probably the easiest fix is to apply a width to your textarea
using a style sheet, something like this:

<style type="text/css">
   textarea {
      width: 300px ;
   }
</style>

	This will override the cols value specified in your <textarea>
element in IE 4+ as well as Netscape 6, whereas Netscape 4.x (and most other
browsers) will use the cols value.

hth,
James Aylard

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