Form Fields in Netscape vs IE

[marty]

I am experiencing a very frustrating compatibility issue and hope that somebody can help shed some light on what the problem might be:

i am using a for loop in PHP to echo a series of rows of text fields within a form. The fields are all limited in size by the SIZE="n" directive within the INPUT TYPE=TEXT tag.

For some reason, IE displays the text fields at the appropriate size (n number of characters), but netscape does not. HOWEVER, if the HTML source from the PHP generated page is cut and pasted into a new file and then THAT file is loaded into a browser, the textfields display at the proper size.

can ANYONE find a method to this mayhem? If so, i would be incredibly grateful!

Thanks in advance,
Marty

[glowball]

I've found that IE and Netscape don't display the same widths for text fields so I've had to determine which browser they're using and implement two different sizes for text fields. It might just be easier to be more flexible and leave Netscape more room or something.

As for why it works if you cut and paste, that's a strang one. Which versions of browsers are you using?