Width affects margins under IE6-7

Hello.

I have a simple html that works good under FF and Opera, but under IE
I see unexpected left margin for the input box. This only happens when
the 'width' specified (the actual value does not matter).

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<div style="margin-left:270px; border: 1px dashed red;">
<div style="border: 1px solid blue; width:100%; ">
<input type="input" value="some value"></input>
</div>
</div>
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Why this happens?

Thank you for your time,
- Alex

"Alex" <achertog (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hello.

I have a simple html that works good under FF and Opera, but under IE
I see unexpected left margin for the input box. This only happens when
the 'width' specified (the actual value does not matter).

- - - - - - -
div style="margin-left:270px; border: 1px dashed red;"
div style="border: 1px solid blue; width:100%; "
input type="input" value="some value"></input
/div
/div
- - - - - - -

Why this happens?

Why does this happen? It's Internet Explorer! ;-)

To stop it from happening, wrap it in a form tag -
<form method="get" action="thisformname.html" style="margin:0;">
<input ... as above></input>
</form>

On 24 déc, 15:26, Alex <acher... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello.

I have a simple html that works good under FF and Opera, but under IE
I see unexpected left margin for the input box. This only happens when
the 'width' specified (the actual value does not matter).

- - - - - - -
div style="margin-left:270px; border: 1px dashed red;"
div style="border: 1px solid blue; width:100%; "
input type="input" value="some value"></input
/div
/div
- - - - - - -

Why this happens?

Thank you for your time,
- Alex

Alex,

I have reported your bug finding at bug item #96 in

Bugs in Internet Explorer 7
http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE7Bugs/

http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSe...utTextBox.html

I may improve that demo/testcase later... bit busy right now...

Season's greetings and regards, Gérard

Thank you both for your responses... And Happy New Year! Love, luck
and less bugs in 2008 for everybody :-)