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Netscape and IE - help!

jammybuns · 2001-11-06 14:40:21

Does anyone know anything about making webpages look the same in netscape and IE? In particular, the length of text inputs. Netscape displays text input text in a courier font, whereas IE displays the text in a arial font, therefore when you specify the width of the text input in characters, the Netscape text input will be…

06-11-2001 03:40PM

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jammybuns

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Does anyone know anything about making webpages look the same in netscape and IE? In particular, the length of text inputs. Netscape displays text input text in a courier font, whereas IE displays the text in a arial font, therefore when you specify the width of the text input in characters, the Netscape text input will be longer...
any suggestions?

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#2 06-11-2001 04:21PM

beaver

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Use CSS.

For example, you could do it inline like this:

<input type='text' name='blah' style='font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica'; font-size: 11px; width: 100px'>

Check out CSS at http://www.w3schools.com/css/

HTH,
-Ross

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