Textbox acts strangely when in <span> 2

[katherinep]

Hello,

I am currently making a site using stylesheets for positioning so it conforms to w3c standards. I have a page with a form on it but it is acting strangely. The code looks like this

<span class="form_item">
<input name="Fri" type="text" size="4">
</span>

and form_item looks like this

form_item {  margin-left: 190px;  margin-right:190px;}

Whats happens is when the text box is inside the <span> tag it is really hard to select the textbox, you have to click on the very bottom or very top to manage to select it. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Katherine

 

[dkdude]

Hi Katherine,

Why don't you just apply the class to the input itself? Like this:

<input name="Fri" type="text" size="4" class="form_item">

This works for me in IE and firefox.

Regards


Jakob

 

[katherinep]

Thanks Jakob, it works perfectly, I don't know why I didn't think of that!

Katherine

 

[Olavxxx]

it's not always that you can apply the styles and it will work.. eg. for making css layout for hyperlinks, I had to use <div>

I dont know what it is with <span>,but it seems kindof limited some times. I use the <div>, whenever I can.

There are always some issues in IE, if you optimize for standard code, but most of the time, you can find a work-around.

Olav Alexander Mjelde

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