Different Input Lengths - Why?

If you look at http://www.corporateairamerica.com/testlength.html
you will see a simple table. In IE7 the input lengths are different.
In Firefox they are the same.

I discovered this while trying to modify the main page at
http://www.corporateairamerica.com

If you look at this page in IE7 or Firefox both input lengths are the
same. To my eye this page is using the same code in the login table as
above.

Any suggestions?

Tom

Call Me Tom wrote:

To be honest, I have no idea what this means.

If you're open to a WAG, the first field may contain all M's so
sufficient space is created, even though you can type only 6 of them.

The second field only needs space for 15 *'s (although one may type
more). This needs less space.

It is bizarre, though. I'm not trying to justify it.

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http://www.ringers.org.uk

Swifty wrote:

Call Me Tom wrote:
To be honest, I have no idea what this means.

If you're open to a WAG, the first field may contain all M's so
sufficient space is created, even though you can type only 6 of them.



The second field only needs space for 15 *'s (although one may type
more). This needs less space.

It may be a WAG, but changing the type of the second input text box to
'text' solves the problem.

If the OP really needs (wants) both boxes to be the same width, he
should style them both to a specific width.

While he is at it, he can change the doctype to HTML 4.01 strict and
lose the slashes at the end of the input tags.

Scott Bryce schrieb:

While he is at it, he can change the doctype to HTML 4.01 strict and
lose the slashes at the end of the input tags.

Why's that? IMHO it would be better to change it to XHTML 1.1 (and make
the site valid XHTML 1.1) and keep those slashes...

Johannes

Gregor Kofler wrote:

Why's that? IMHO it would be better to change it to XHTML 1.1 (and make
the site valid XHTML 1.1) and keep those slashes...

Why would one want to do that? (Change to XHTML 1.1.)

Some people just like doing simple tasks the hard way. This is how the
game of golf was invented, and look how many people do that.

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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk

Johannes Hafner <johannes.hafner (AT) gmx (DOT) de> writes:

Scott Bryce schrieb:

While he is at it, he can change the doctype to HTML 4.01 strict and
lose the slashes at the end of the input tags.

Why's that?

Because XHTML is pointless. IE parses it as HTML, which means that you
can't actually use anything that would actually make XHTML a better choice
in any meaningful way.

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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:55:58 GMT
Call Me Tom <Noone (AT) nowhere (DOT) net> wrote in:
<i6pav41bn418769rbdpeb7753ddnnoi0nt (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>

If you look at http://www.corporateairamerica.com/testlength.html
you will see a simple table. In IE7 the input lengths are
different. In Firefox they are the same.

I discovered this while trying to modify the main page at
http://www.corporateairamerica.com

If you look at this page in IE7 or Firefox both input lengths
are the same. To my eye this page is using the same code in the
login table as above.

Any suggestions?

IE uses different font-family for input type=text and input type
password. As it appears IE also uses different font-family for
input type=text for utf-8 then it does for iso-8859-1.

A simple fix would be to set the font-family for input.

<style type="text/css">

input {
font-family: sans-serif;
}

</style>

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*Charlie Kaufman on Cypherpunks list*

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Gregor Kofler schrieb:

Johannes Hafner meinte:
Scott Bryce schrieb:
While he is at it, he can change the doctype to HTML 4.01 strict and
lose the slashes at the end of the input tags.
Why's that? IMHO it would be better to change it to XHTML 1.1 (and make
the site valid XHTML 1.1) and keep those slashes...

Why would one want to do that? (Change to XHTML 1.1.)

Because someone would like to use valid XML instead of some language
based on the outdated SGML. Ca you, for example, mix HTML with other
SGM-languages like you can mix XHTML with other XM-languages like
MathML, XForms, etc.?

Johannes

Sherm Pendley schrieb:

Johannes Hafner <johannes.hafner (AT) gmx (DOT) de> writes:

Scott Bryce schrieb:
While he is at it, he can change the doctype to HTML 4.01 strict and
lose the slashes at the end of the input tags.
Why's that?

Because XHTML is pointless. IE parses it as HTML, which means that you
can't actually use anything that would actually make XHTML a better choice
in any meaningful way.

But it is not worse either. And how knows, what future versions of IE
will (hopefully) do with it?

Johannes

Johannes Hafner wrote:

Sherm Pendley schrieb:
Johannes Hafner <johannes.hafner (AT) gmx (DOT) de> writes:

Scott Bryce schrieb:
While he is at it, he can change the doctype to HTML 4.01 strict and
lose the slashes at the end of the input tags.
Why's that?

Because XHTML is pointless. IE parses it as HTML, which means that you
can't actually use anything that would actually make XHTML a better
choice
in any meaningful way.

But it is not worse either.

Well actually it is, been discussed ad nauseam. IE only parses it as bad
html and can mess up constant cross browser styling.

And how knows, what future versions of IE
will (hopefully) do with it?

Now there is an optimist!

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