Re: netscape forms

by "Sue Bailey" <sue(at)bartandsue.co.uk>

 Date:  Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:32:26 +0100
 To:  "Rob Prentice" <RJP(at)clickdms.com>,
<hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
 References:  DMS
  todo: View Thread, Original
Yep and no. Explorer lets you get away with not putting in the form tags, NN
doesn't. It's the old 'sloppy code' thing; see archives from a couple of
days ago.

Sue

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Prentice <RJP(at)clickdms.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: netscape forms


> Hello,
>  i forgot to put a form tag into a page, and i viewed it in IE and the
> dropdown list menues were drop down list menues. but, in Netscape they
> were text. the text inside the list menue was in a collumn. ... i put a
> font tag around the list boxes and netscape displays the text inside
> them as the specified font (only if ive got the form tag there otherwise
> its just text in a collumn (no list box in sight)).
>
> is it supposed to do this? ive looked at the w3c site and couldnt find
> anything. its a nightmare site get around in in places.
>
> thankyou. take care.
>
>  DE

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