Re: FORMS and sizing in Netscape

"Nutscrape" Heheheheheh! I like that...

Actually, Paul's right, Netscape does make the boxes bigger, but the same
number of characters in length... Netscape uses the COURIER NEW (or similar)
font to space the input fields; IE uses the browser default, TIMES NEW ROMAN
or VERDANA or whatever the user has set it to to define it. In that Courier
is monospaced and the IE fonts are not, the IE boxes are smaller.

If CSS is an option, size the Input boxes with CSS (style="width: 100px;").
IE will use that size regardless of the size attribute, Netscape 4.x will
ignore the CSS and size based on the size attribute. You can get close
approximations that way.

Good luck!

Kehvan

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Angel One" <angelone(at)angelonearth.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 23:19
Subject: Re: FORMS and sizing in Netscape


>     Hi Linda,
>     Without seeing your code, you probably need to shorten the # of
> characters (size) on your fields.
> <input type="text" size="30" name="name">
>  I've found that Nutscrape tends to make the fields much longer than I.E.
> You can still make the maximum characters as long as you wish.
> HTH,
>     ~ Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Mercer/Wishstar" <catnip(at)ais.net>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:41 PM
> Subject: FORMS and sizing in Netscape
>
>
> I'm having trouble getting a form to size withint the border of ta table
> (and not expand the table to almost twice it's width) in Netscape... it
> fits perfectly in the table in IE.  Any suggestions?
>
> Linda
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