Which browsers? Looks normal to me in Opera, except that the whole page is squashed to the left, as a lot of sites tend to be when people insist on designing them for 800x600 instead of being resolution-independent.
Edit: Actually the middle section is slightly wider than your header, so I guess that's what you mean. As for how to make the search box smaller, check the HTML specifications to be sure the way you're doing it is standard... though it looks normal to me at a glance. Maybe something else in the page interferes somehow. I tried to validate your page, but the w3c says "Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 493 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication."
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there's a problem with my webpage that causes the left-hand column to appear too wide in some browsers, but i can't seem to fix it.
it pushes the whole middle section of my wsnlinks main page out so that it's noticably wider than the header and out of alignment.
i set the column width to a fixed value, and yet i think the search box in one of the top cells is forcing the column to be wider than i want it.
i set the width of the search box to a fixed width, but i guess this isn't being interpreted correctly by some browers.
any suggestions?
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Which browsers? Looks normal to me in Opera, except that the whole page is squashed to the left, as a lot of sites tend to be when people insist on designing them for 800x600 instead of being resolution-independent.
Edit: Actually the middle section is slightly wider than your header, so I guess that's what you mean. As for how to make the search box smaller, check the HTML specifications to be sure the way you're doing it is standard... though it looks normal to me at a glance. Maybe something else in the page interferes somehow. I tried to validate your page, but the w3c says "Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 493 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication."
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I notice this effect in IE 5.00 when listing comments of a link item, comments combined with details.
In IE the comments are wider than the details above and create a horizontal scroller.
It looks proper when comments are shown separate from details.
Possibly the same underlying code/formatting used elsewhere causing table width anomolies?