Posted by Andyza on 05/10/06 21:59

On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:34:09 -0500, David McDivitt
<x12code-del@del-yahoo.com> wrote:

>When buttons are created they are often too wide for the text. The problem
>is worse as text becomes longer. I want the same margin between border and
>text for all buttons. Using style to adjust this value doesn't help. It
>seems the button width is computed incorrectly, or by the wrong factor, for
>the number of characters and font. Help would be appreciated. Thanks

It's a bug in IE:
http://www.designdetector.com/bugs/ie6-stretched-button-bug.html

Possible solution:
http://jehiah.com/archive/button-width-in-ie
http://jehiah.com/archive/button-width-in-ie-revised

I had the same question just a few days ago. See the "Ugly button"
thread in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

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