Nailed It!

openmind — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:32:19 +0000

Thnx for the thread mmi,

I got it cracked by setting a form.input class up as width:120px and setting the size attribute for the form field as "10".

NS ignores the style but takes in the size, MS does the reverse!!

Sorted!

detox — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 01:39:08 +0000

This probably wont help much, but I wrap all of my form building into asp subs. These are little functions that I made to simplify thew building of forms. On my asp pages I now have only say 6 lines of code to generate 30 odd lines of HTML.

Anyway, the point is I have tied it in to the browser script so that if the displaying browser is netscape or anything else, I have a second value for the length of form fields etc. It simply means that any forms are as close to being crossbrowser in look than any other method.

Mark Hensler — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 01:04:50 +0000

When I'm printing forms with a server-side language, I check the browser. If it's NN 4.7, then I print a size 1/2 to 1/4 the IE size.

...and yet another reason to ditch Netscape. The other being that AOL owns them.

hot topic lately

mmi — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 00:44:43 +0000

hey flipper - ya might want to wade through this thread from mmy hometown - I think it's come up recently here in the Woods as well

mairving — Mon, 07 Jan 2002 23:00:44 +0000

A couple of things to try.
One is to change the size of the textbox and add a maxlength field:

The other way that I have had some success with is to code like this: