On Tue, 30 May 2006 00:53:13 +0300 Jukka K. Korpela <jk******@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
| Gerry Vandermaesen <ge****************@gmail.com> scripsit:
|
|> the only alternative I see is wrapping each
|> line in a 2-column table, and setting the input width to 100% of the
|> containing cell.
|
| Well, it seems that you already have a solution - you just haven't sold it
| to yourself yet!
There are people hanging around that will say that tables should not be
used (except for tabular data). What he really needs to do is learn to
ignore them.
| Actually the most difficult part might be setting the width for the _first_
| column. You can't just leave it unspecified and the set the entire table's
| width to 100%, because browsers will treat this in different ways . Perhaps
| the best shot is to set the first column's width in em units, using some
| good guess based on the expected maximum length of the labels.
If you narrow the browsers down to just those that are in compliance with
web standards, will they still treat the 100% width in different ways?
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