> It's incredible really that something so common as this cannot be simplified > or standardized in some way.
Forms are impossible to get identical, because each browser/operating system combination has it's own way of rendering form elements. This is because most browsers leave the form elements up to the operating system for consistency with the rest of the OS. And vertical centering outside of tables is nearly impossible since the browser doesn't know how tall an element is until it's done loading it. And pages start displaying before they're done loading completely. There are other ways to do it (absolute positioning and negative margins or display: table come to mind), but the table way I gave you is the easiest and most cross-browser compatible. > P.S. Does anyone know why IE7 insists on adding extra horizontal padding to > the sides of a block element such as an <input type="submit"> or an <a> > tag styled to look like a button? Those aren't block elements. They are inline elements. So my bet would be that it isn't horizontal padding, but spaces (like the actual character). Not having line-breaks between your elements will help with that. ---Tim ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
