Jukka,
here is the link:
http://ca.geocities.com/aamirghanchi/test.htm
and here are the answers to your questions
-I asked for a kludge, because I know there is no solution as it is IE6
specific problem.
-You will understand what I mean by alignment once you lookup the link.
-If you carefully look at the code snippet I previously posted, I am
not missing any </divtag.
-I did use the LABEL tag in the actual code. Just so that I could
emphasize that this is about frmatting and not about content
description, I have used div tags for labelling.
-This code is targetted for an intranet app therefore I am aware of the
user screen settings as well as the browser (hence IE6). I have
checked the pixel width and the text fits very well in it for all
commonly used screen resolutions and IE6 view>textsize menu selection
Thanks for your good advice and I tend to stick to them when coding for
the general web.
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
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aamirghanchi@gmail.com:
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I am hoping if there is a kludge in IE6 to make the textbox align with
the top label.
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Do you want a kludge, or do you want a solution? And what is the problem?
"Aligning with" something isn't a very exact description.
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You should post a URL, not snippets of code, and you should use valid
markup.
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Quote:
<div class="field" style="width:75px;">
<div class="top-label">From Date</div>
<input name="FromDate" type="text" style="width:100%;">
</div>
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You should start from constructing logical, semantic markup. And valid
markup - you're even missing a closing </divtag here.
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To associate a text with a field, use <labelmarkup.
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Do not set widths in pixels - for all that you can know, 75 pixels might not
be enough even for the word "From".
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Always set a width for an <inputbox in HTML. You don't want to accept
unknown browser defaults in situations where your CSS code gets ignored. So
use size="...", in addition to any eventual width setting in CSS.
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If the input field is for what its name and label suggest, it's width should
be set to something that reflects the length of expected input. I hope your
form explains somewhere what the expected date format is. Generally, setting
size="..." in <inputwithout CSS settings is suitable for data that is
expected to be of fixed length, since HTML has a _more logical_ approach
here (allowing the width to be set in characters).
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ 
