Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 05/08/07 14:24

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> writing in
news:BVW%h.160412$HE1.86966@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi:

> Scripsit aaronfude@gmail.com:
>
>> What's a better way to control the width of an input box? To use
>> "width", as in style="width: 200px", or size as in <input size=25>?
>
> Surely the latter, since as an author, you can estimate the typical
> length of input in characters but not in pixels. For all that you can
> know, 200px might correspond to 4 or 40 characters.
>

Agreed, as well as, as an author you may need to limit the user to a
certain number of characters, if for instance, the information is to be
posted to a database. Of course, in that case, you would also want to
check the size of the data server side.

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