Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/27/07 17:13

Aaron Gray wrote:
> "Vince Morgan" <vinharAtHereoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:477369c0$0$13959$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>> "Aaron Gray" <ang.usenet@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:5tg6geF19pba4U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am having problems with a form taking too much vertical space.
>>>
>>> The test example is here :-
>>>
>>> http://www.aarongray.org/Test/HTML/Form/test.html
>>>
>> If you put the form tags outside the div you don't have the problem in
>> IE6,
>> or Mozilla.
>> Ie:
>> <form method="post" action="test.html">
>> <div id="header-right">
>>
>> <input type="text" name="query" size="40" value="">
>> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search">
>>
>> </div>
>> </form>
>> Can't say that it's good form to do so, but it works.
>
> Ah, thats why the Google homepage renders correctly.

Only because browsers have quirks mode and can parse tag soup. Also
there is really very little content to screw up.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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