how to adjust the size of a textbox??

<TEXTAREA NAME="name_goes_here"
ROWS=40 COLS=65 WRAP=physical></TEXTAREA>

for a text area


<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name_goes_here" Size=80>

for a text box

Hope that helps.

or use CSS:

inline:
<input type="text" name="myText" style="width:250px">

style sheet:

<!-- goes in the head tags -->
<style>
    .data {
        width:250px;
    }
</style>

<input type="text" name="myText" class="data">

also, the height of the textbox will change depending on the font type and font size in the textbox

you can do this:

<input type="text" style="font-family:verdana; font-size:14;">

The maxlength attribute will stop users typing in too much to your textbox as well, so, say you wanted to have a field for date input and you wanted the textbox to be a certain size to match others on the page, but didn't want people to type tons of stuff, you could use the follwing:

<form>
  <input type="text" name="txtboxname" size="15" maxlength="10" />
  <input type="submit" />
</form>

10 characters would allow nothing greater than, for example, 26/04/2003 to be entered.  Obviously, where a date is concerned, lots more checking is required :) but maxlength is a good start and can help prevent long SQL injection attacks from people trying to type in too much into your txtbox trying to add stuff to SQL statements embedded in your code.

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