Re: Window formatting - Firefox vs. IE

Thanks, Jim. I'll give it a try.

Jim Douglas wrote:
> David,
>
> The selection of "quirks mode" versus "standards mode" is the biggest
> factor I've noticed in the overall behaviour in IE8. (I haven't
> tested in IE6 or IE7.)
>
> The quickest way to see if that's the issue is to hit F12 and try the
> three different document modes. If your stuff works in standards mode
> and fails in quirks mode, change that to be the default version that
> you serve up.
>
> Jim.
>
> On Dec 23, 10:06 am, "David C. Hicks" <dhi...@i-hicks.org> wrote:
>
>> I've got a couple of problems with some dialogs that are based on the
>> Window class. I hope someone can point me to a quick solution. It just
>> seems like I must be missing something.
>>
>> My dialog based on the Window class has a number of panels in it. Each
>> panel may have several widgets. Those are all looking pretty good. I
>> set the AutoHeight and AutoWidth properties for the Window to true. Now
>> come the problems:
>>
>> 1) In Firefox, the dialogs look like they're almost perfect, except that
>> with text fields that are required, the little red icon on the right
>> makes the field larger than the dialog, resulting in a scroll bar being
>> placed below the widget/panel. Is there a way to take that icon into
>> account so that the width works out correctly?
>>
>> 2) In IE, the dialogs end up taking the entire width of the browser, but
>> not the height (which appears to be correct). How can I prevent this?
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> Dave
>>
>
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