Question

Width of a table with a text input control

Asked by: zc2

How can I make Internet Explorer (all other browsers fine) resize the input control as the browser's window width changes by the user?
It stuck with the minimum width which is the width of the inner text.  Using the code example below in Mozilla the input text box resizes perfectly with the resizing of the browser window but with IE, the input text box resizes until it reaches the size of the text it contains and then it will shrink no further.  
In other words, how can I get IE to behave like Mozilla, with respect to resizing the input text box in conjunction with resizing the browser window?
(I can not get rid of the table in my HTML.)

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE style="width: 100%;">
<TR><TD>
<INPUT type="text"
value="Very long text in the edit control nested in a table cell which will not be squeezed in the internet explorer."
style="width: 100%; min-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; font-size: 200%;">
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
                                  
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Asked On
2009-11-03 at 14:44:25ID24869199
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Internet Explorer

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CSS

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width

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minimum width

Topics

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

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Answers

 

by: BurtAndersonPosted on 2009-11-03 at 15:50:38ID: 25735182

The problem is in the table. It will expand to encompass anything inside it, even if that takes it over 100% width - delete the table and it works.

I'm still trying to figure out how to do it WITH the table - so far, it's not working. I'm about to head home for the day, but if I come up with anything on how to do it with the table intact, I'll post back.

 

by: zc2Posted on 2009-11-03 at 16:07:24ID: 25735267

Thanks for the response. I know the table causes problem. Unfortunately, I can't redesign the page, so I need a solution with the table.

 

by: MuraliKanthPosted on 2009-11-03 at 19:48:48ID: 25736233

try this,

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY style="overflow-y: scroll;overflow-x: hidden;">
<TABLE style="width: 100%;" border="1">
<TR><TD>
<INPUT type="text"
value="Very long text in the edit control nested in a table cell which will not be squeezed in the internet explorer."
style="width: 100%; min-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; font-size: 200%;">
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

                                              
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by: zc2Posted on 2009-11-04 at 06:52:18ID: 25739842

that does not make any difference. I just don't see browser's scroll bars, so what? That even worse.
The input control still is not being shrunk as I need. :(

 

by: BurtAndersonPosted on 2009-11-04 at 07:21:59ID: 25740199

This works - mostly. I'm not sure if it does exactly what you want. You have to click into the box and cursor down to read the second line. I just changed the input type to a textarea.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE style="width: 100%;">
<TR><TD>
<TEXTAREA cols="100%" rows="1" style="width: 100%; min-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; font-size: 200%;">
Very long text in the edit control nested in a table cell which will not be squeezed in the internet explorer."
</TEXTAREA>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

                                              
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by: zc2Posted on 2009-11-04 at 10:45:10ID: 25742454

No, of course that's not I want.
I want an single line input control, not multi line text area.
I want a proportionally sized input control be resized as much as the browser's window.
I want the IE behave exactly as Mozilla and all other browsers do.
(Open my original snippet in any browser except IE (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera), squeeze the browser window and look on the input control. It becomes smaller. In the IE it never becomes smaller than the text in it.)

 

by: BurtAndersonPosted on 2009-11-04 at 12:56:48ID: 25743824

Took some research, but I got it. Table-layout:fixed solved it. 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE style="table-layout:fixed; width: 100%;">
<TR><TD>
<INPUT type="text"
value="Very long text in the edit control nested in a table cell which will not be squeezed in the internet explorer."
style="width: 100%; min-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; font-size: 200%;">
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

                                              
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by: zc2Posted on 2009-11-04 at 14:10:36ID: 25744556

table-layout:fixed; causes many other problems, like overflowing the cell content out, but I have to grade you the points because in the context of the asked question it's a solution.
Thank you.

 

by: BurtAndersonPosted on 2009-11-04 at 14:25:45ID: 25744708

Gee, thanks.

Keep your points, I don't want them. I'll take my points from people who appreciate my effort. I'm sorry I stopped to help.

 

by: zc2Posted on 2009-11-04 at 14:31:00ID: 25744772

I do appreciate your effort.

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