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brisray Date: 03-11-2004 23:57 |
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The big problem with using absolute positions and widths in webpages is that many people don't have the same screen resolution as you do when you design the page.
Most people (according to my visitor stats) use 1024 x 768, but many people still use 800 x 600. Your page, it appears was designed for 1024 x 768, so it looks right on your machine (and mine). Another problem may be that they are not using browser windows opened to their full size. One way around this is to go back to use the width=80% setting in your table, but keep the absolute positioning, which is from the left. The problem then is the tables won't match - which is what the original problem was. See the dilemma? You just can't please everyone all the time. The best you can hope to do is look at your pages with different kinds of screen resolution - you can change that while the browser is open, and look at what happens to the pages when you close down the browser window a little. You'll have to decide whether to change your site or it's acceptable at different resolutions. OK, I got what you mean about the text box now. It's not a textbox you need but a textarea. Put this into a page and see what happens <textarea rows="14" cols="20">Ray did this</textarea> The real scrollbar will appear as soon as the text is longer than the textarea. I think I said this before, but you can easily change the appearance of these things using scripting or CSS, see http://brisray.com/web/wforms1.htm Everything you need to know about textareas is at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.7 but I always find that site hard to understand - too much techno-babble. Far easier is http://www.w3schools.com/html/attr_textarea.asp Another item you can use is an inline frame. These even let you use whole HTML documents as a source. See http://brisray.com/web/web1.htm Look at some of the sites at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=HTML+inline+frames Ray |
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