Re: form boxes in tables: neatness

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From: Kevin Deighton
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:08

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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:18:03 +0100, John Robertson
<veg@musonix.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Does anyone know of any sites that tell you how to tidy-up form boxes?
>I have a box, a button and a drop-down menu, and they are all different 
>lengths, even in the main browser I use. In the more obscure browsers 
>they are a bit alarming...

	You could use the CSS width: property, although that won't
work in many older browsers. Maybe try messing with the cols=""
attribute on your text input fields?

-- 
Kev
http://www.teop.org/
Subway sucks

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From: kevin.deighton1@btopenworld.com (Kevin Deighton)
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