jackchen — Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:29:00 +0000

Maybe you haven't set up the wat Netscape displays text correctly?

In IE 5, there is this "View > Text Size" menu item where you can set how large the text should be display.

Maybe you should check Netscape if there is such a thing too.

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PJ — Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:26:00 +0000

Jack,

I don't really have an Internet site, all my work is done on Intranet. If you want to see some work I've done with forms on the web go to either:
http://www.foodpricesonline.com or http://www.oralradiology.com

and find a page with a form on it. If you view source with IE and then Netscape you'll notice that the size of the input tags is slightly different for each browser even though it's the same page. The ASP source would be something like this:

<% Browser detect script goes here
%>

It's that simple. I can't begin to stress how useful a tool this is. It's handy for so many other things besides input tags. I don't have to make separate pages for each browser everything is on one page.

Later,
PJ

Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:36:00 +0000

You could always try playing around with the font setting for the text fields. I haven't tryed this myself but it might work. It is probably easier than setting up an ASP site to display different forms.

INPUT {
font-family:verdana;
font-size:9pt;
}

</style>

If it works let us know.

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Jack Michaelson — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:46:00 +0000

JP-

I'm curious about your site.

PJ — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:22:00 +0000

visual1,

I've done alot of work with HTML forms. There is no easy solution for this. Even when specifying size and maxlength Netscape is always around twice as long as IE. Style doesn't work either on input tags(with Netscape) so style="width:20px" won't work.

What I've done is I use ASP. So I detect which browser the user has and give them a text field based on that. It's a little bit of extra work but it's worth it since it gives me uniform layout in both browsers. You could also use PHP for this if you're on a UNIX server.

This could be done with JavaScript also using document.write but it will be alot more involved.

Later,
PJ

Jack Michaelson — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:26:00 +0000

Do you use the size-property of an input type?
<input type=text size=20>

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