[thelist] CSS, Forms, IE/Netscape

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> From: "Gina K. Anderson" <gina at sitediva.com>
[...]
> Then just apply <INPUT CLASS="radio"..., right?

right, but isaac's article goes into more detail 
(http://www.evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=454, in case you 
dumped the other posts)...

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> For example, from the above sentence, it seems like you are saying to put two
> sizes in the input tag, "one correct and one short"..? Then what would the
> attribute be for the class?

sorry, i can see it was convoluted-sounding...

<input type="text" ... size="30" class="textBox">

so, that size gets rendered as just right in IE, but it comes up 
shorter than you want in NN... this prevents it from pushing your 
page out... unless you want it to happen the other way... in short, 
code it as if you had no CSS control at all and make it as good as 
you can for all browsers -- choosing the 'size' attribute least likely 
to look ugly...

after this, add your 'class' attribute... now, for the CSS-friendly 
browser, it sees the class, ignores the 'size' attribute, and then 
applies the style (i think it's size, but i can't find a sample 
anywhere) 'textBox'... you could also do it inline, but that's up to 
you...