Posted by jojo on 10/18/06 15:00

John Dalberg wrote:
>>> I have this simple table below. I can't get the input box (text field)
>>> to display smaller. I tried different cell widths, I used smaller font
>>> and I set both the cell width and the text field but I can't decrease
>>> the width. Should't I be able to set the second cell width to any
>>> width? Right now in Firefox, the input box is over 100px and it should
>>> be much less.
>> Why do you think so? You have neither styled the INPUT element to a
>> specific width nor sized the field with the attribute SIZE for the
>> character count. All you have done is shrunk the text size to a tiny 9px!
>
> Yes I was able to do so and using a small font and monospace font.
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/present.html

You were "able to"? Congratulations. But I wouldn't it call great
because I like to be able to read what I just entered into a form...

To size the form use the size-attribute of the input or use the
css-property width on the input (and not on the table) as Jonathan
already told you.

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