On Feb 8, 2008, at 1:43 AM, Michael B Allen wrote:

> The font size in textarea elements on Firefox (on Linux at least) is
> about 70% the size of other input and select elements in the same form
> whereas in IE the font size is roughly the same across all form
> elements. I suspect this has more to do with the fact that textarea
> uses a courier font-family and FF preferences specifically use a
> smaller font for Courier but of course I have no control over that.
>
> So how does one get the same textarea font size behavior between FF  
> and IE?

textarea {font: 20px/1.2 'comic sans', fantasy }
?
More seriously, what is the issue ?
The fact that you rely on the 'cols' attribute for the width of the  
textarea ? If so, set the width of the textarea in px/% as appropriate  
in your stylesheet.


Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/




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