That's a LOT of markup. You could actually use an input field if you just want to set a background color an some text. It might look like this:
<input type="text" name="name" style="width: 100px;" /> <input type="text" name="name" value="some text" style="width: 80px;background: #ff0000; border: 0px;height: 20px;" /> -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hector Virgen Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:30 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: span tag is width:80px but is only showing the width of contents? Wrap the input in a div with and set the div's position to relative. Then, add the span as as a div, set the width, and position it absolutely. Its absolute position will be relative to the container div, not the page. <div style="position: relative;"> <input type="text" name="name" style="width: 100px;" /> <div style="position: absolute; left: 100px; top: 0px; width: 90px;">test</div> </div> -Hector On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:04 AM, nmiddleweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes that works... What I'm trying to do is display a SPAN atg at the end of an Input text field of a fixed size. If I set the display to block, it is forcing itself to be on the next line. Have you got any idea on how I can do this? Cheers, Nick On Nov 7, 3:48 pm, mbraybrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try: > <span style="width:80px; background-color:#00FF00; display:block;">A</ > span> > > Does that work? > > M > > On Nov 7, 3:45 pm, nmiddleweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I've got a SPAN tag which is set to 80px... > > > <span style="width:80px; background-color:#00FF00;">A</span> > > > The contents of the SPAN is a single character and when rendered on > > screen, the green SPAN is showing as only approx 15 pixels in width. > > > How can I force the width to be 80px? > > > Thanks, > > Nick
