[WSG] Textarea problem
I'm having a problem with a textarea. It will display properly on the
page (which has three div columns) but when a person begins to input
data it automatically expands (to the right) so it occupies two columns
instead of just the middle column. I've never seen anything like this
before...
.t1 {
display:inline; <- this is a tip I got from the mail list
width:98%;
height:125px;
}
I've validated the code and this problem seems consistent in IE6 in
windows 2000.
Has anybody experience this same problem? I could post more code for
this but I'll wait and see if there might be an easy solution to this
first.
Thanks, v
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Re: [WSG] Textarea problem
Can you post a demo link?
On 10/05/2004, at 12:14 AM, Vaska.WSG wrote:
I'm having a problem with a textarea. It will display properly on the
page (which has three div columns) but when a person begins to input
data it automatically expands (to the right) so it occupies two
columns instead of just the middle column. I've never seen anything
like this before...
.t1 {
display:inline; <- this is a tip I got from the mail list
width:98%;
height:125px;
}
I've validated the code and this problem seems consistent in IE6 in
windows 2000.
Has anybody experience this same problem? I could post more code for
this but I'll wait and see if there might be an easy solution to this
first.
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Justin French
http://indent.com.au
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Re: [WSG] Textarea problem
On May 9, 2004, at 11:14 pm, Vaska.WSG wrote:
I'm having a problem with a textarea. It will display properly on the
page (which has three div columns) but when a person begins to input
data it automatically expands (to the right) so it occupies two
columns instead of just the middle column. I've never seen anything
like this before...
.t1 {
display:inline; <- this is a tip I got from the mail list
width:98%;
height:125px;
}
I've seen this more when using percentage based width (and the same
happens to tables, but mostly in quirks mode).
One solution is to have a width (or height [1]) explicitly declared on
the direct parent container.
[1] height:1% on that parent container would be OK, but only served to
IE Windows, by using the 'Holly' hack.
Hack explained down this page
---/---
Philippe Wittenbergh
now live :
Re: [WSG] Textarea problem
This is really a pain. The problem I can see is that with a liquid
layout I need to specify an actual width for the middle column (the
left and right columns both being fixed-width) - so the solution is not
so easy. Holly's hack didn't work and besides I rarely use hacks as I
generally simplify things to a point where I either don't need them or
I can go around the problem.
As for this problem, M$/IE wins again, I'll go back to two columns for
this particular part of things.
Thanks for the input...v
On 10 May 2004, at 03:41, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
On May 9, 2004, at 11:14 pm, Vaska.WSG wrote:
I'm having a problem with a textarea. It will display properly on
the page (which has three div columns) but when a person begins to
input data it automatically expands (to the right) so it occupies two
columns instead of just the middle column. I've never seen anything
like this before...
.t1 {
display:inline; <- this is a tip I got from the mail list
width:98%;
height:125px;
}
I've seen this more when using percentage based width (and the same
happens to tables, but mostly in quirks mode).
One solution is to have a width (or height [1]) explicitly declared on
the direct parent container.
[1] height:1% on that parent container would be OK, but only served to
IE Windows, by using the 'Holly' hack.
Hack explained down this page
---/---
Philippe Wittenbergh
now live :
