Thanks a lot Tim, Kevin and Chris for your continued replies. I have already tried Tim's method and I must say it works very well - thanks very much.
Kevin rest assured I will study your method in great detail. With you having taken the time to put it together I will put the time into learning it that's for sure. Thanks again guys, John. > From: tcli...@exchange.iu.edu > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:47:25 -0400 > Subject: Re: [css-d] Making a simple form look identical across the main > browsers > > > 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/ _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
