- From: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 06:41:55 -0400 (EDT)
- To: James Salsman <jsalsman@cisco.com>
- Cc: w3c-forms@w3.org, www-html@w3.org, Steve Johnson <shj@us.ibm.com>
> One thing that has continually driven me crazy when creating forms is
> the absence of a 'width=' attribute on the text input fields. I know a
> 'size=' attribute exists, but this is specific to the font size, and
> I've never been satisfied with the results. I would love to be able to
> specify the width of an input text element in percent, much the same as
> I can specify table widths or cell widths, or even image widths. I
> suppose for completeness, a 'height=' attribute could be added, but I
> don't believe it's necessary.
>
> Have I missed something, or is this a valid suggestion?
What you may have missed is that the CSS group is dealing with all
aspects of display of forms. There is a current draft for extensions
to CSS to handle extra aspects of forms, but you can already say this
in CSS1:
input { width: 50% }
this is because input is a 'replaced inline element'
Best wishes,
Steven Pemberton
Received on Wednesday, 2 June 1999 06:58:05 UTC