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Re: styling <input type=text> elements

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Date 2023-07-31 09:57 -0700
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Subject Re: styling <input type=text> elements
From luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com>

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On Monday, July 31, 2023 at 11:41:58 AM UTC-5, luserdroog wrote:
> On Monday, July 31, 2023 at 10:49:18 AM UTC-5, Ben Bacarisse wrote: 
> > luserdroog <luser...@gmail.com> writes: 
> > 
> > > On Friday, July 28, 2023 at 2:11:45 PM UTC-5, Ben Bacarisse wrote: 
> > >> luserdroog <luser...@gmail.com> writes: 
> > >> 
> > >> > After much searching and struggling I've discovered that the 
> > >> > only way to adjust the size of an <input type=text> element is 
> > >> > with its size="number-of-chars" attribute. 
> > >> Can you say more? Are you limited to what browsers you must support. I 
> > >> thought you could style the width in most. 
> > > 
> > > Oops, other question. Nope, I can safely assume/require the latest versions 
> > > of chrome or firefox. In fact I'm relying on this for the next rewrite 
> > > that'll use the new compression/decompression stuff. 
> > So now I don't know what the problem is! 
> >
> All good now. style="width:inherit" did the trick. 
> It's beautiful. sniff.

Correction, it was 
        edit.style.width = td.offsetWidth + "px";
 that finally worked.

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styling <input type=text> elements luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-28 06:31 -0700
  Re: styling <input type=text> elements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-07-28 20:11 +0100
    Re: styling <input type=text> elements luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-31 06:53 -0700
      Re: styling <input type=text> elements "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2023-07-31 20:59 -0700
        Re: styling <input type=text> elements luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2023-08-02 07:33 -0700
    Re: styling <input type=text> elements luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-31 06:58 -0700
      Re: styling <input type=text> elements Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-07-31 16:49 +0100
        Re: styling <input type=text> elements luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-31 09:41 -0700
          Re: styling <input type=text> elements luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2023-07-31 09:57 -0700
  Re: styling <input type=text> elements JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2023-07-29 17:05 +0700
    Re: styling <input type=text> elements The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-07-29 17:49 +0100
  Re: styling <input type=text> elements Dr.Kral@nyc.rr.com - 2023-07-29 08:57 -0400
    Re: styling <input type=text> elements The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-07-29 17:52 +0100
  Re: styling <input type=text> elements Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2023-07-30 09:45 +0200

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