Nope, its half-assed.

IE has inconsistencies, in that if you set it to 10, it will show about 12 
chars. If you then set it to 25, it will show it at 24.5 chars etc. Then 
if you go under 10, it will default to around 7 chars.

Firefox seems to be fairly consistent, but if you set it to 25 it will be 
24 etc. It won't go under 6 chars. (Annoying).

I think they may use either pts or some other metric "thing" to measure 
the overall size. Google may be the exact answer but i think the point is, 
no.

Good Question though!

I'm gonna investigate this later as i think its a juicy conundrum that by 
god i want to get to the bottom of myself! heheeh - of course thats once i 
finish all this other stuff i have on the books.. :D

Scott



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/11/2004 06:25:27 PM:

> I have a feeling they're not 1:1, it's not really possible (at least
> it wasn't when I last tried, a year or two ago) to do it and get it
> right with any certainty. That should yield a decent result that is
> certainly better than nothing.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:51:18 +1000, Jon Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > Do you mean:
> > 
> > <input type="text" name="blah" value="#defaultvar#" 
> size="#Len(defaultvar)#">
> > 
> > I'm not sure if the number of characters and the size attribute are 
1:1.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:45:02 +1100, Ayudh Nagara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > > Is there a simple way to autosize a form field so that it is just 
wide
> > > enough to accommodate the text value at page load time (as specified 
in
> > > VALUE parameter)?
> > 
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