[thelist] tip: font sizes with IE and login forms

[M. Seyon]

Greetings fellow evolters,

Recently discovered a little nuisance in IE, not sure if it's already 
common knowledge but here goes...

<tip type="IE, font size, text and password fields" author="M. Seyon">
Seems that in IE (discovered in IE6) under certain conditions, the height 
of form controls for regular text fields and password fields may vary by an 
iota or two.

This is most noticeable when the fields are side-by-side rather than the 
more traditional vertical alignment.

The cause appears to be font-family related. Perhaps the height allotted 
for alphanumeric characters differs from that allotted for asterisks only.

The fix I used was to set the font-family to courier or some other 
monospace font.

Note: Even while using non-monospace fonts, this issue does not occur in 
better browsers such as Firefox or Opera.
</tip>

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