Why does IE make the linewidth on boxes thick if the text in them
exceeds a certain number of characters, but thin if it does not. I can
find nothing to indicate how to turn this off, and no other browser
seems to do it. As an example look at:

http://kingcart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=alsoptions

Notice the "All Products" box is thin, but the longer ones are thick. If
I change the length of the text in any box the line width will change.

Thanks,

Marshall

Hi Marshall,

I do not see any difference, with or without a user stylesheet. Don't forget
a user can choose how they want to see HTML elements by selecting their own
User defined Stylesheet. But in the sample you gave the source does not
reveal any reason why border widths on buttons would be dependant upon their
width.
"Marshall Dudley" <mdudley@king-cart.com> wrote in message
news:43988F87.3A1029ED@king-cart.com...
> Why does IE make the linewidth on boxes thick if the text in them
> exceeds a certain number of characters, but thin if it does not. I can
> find nothing to indicate how to turn this off, and no other browser
> seems to do it. As an example look at:
>
> http://kingcart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=alsoptions
>
> Notice the "All Products" box is thin, but the longer ones are thick. If
> I change the length of the text in any box the line width will change.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marshall
>

Well, I see the difference. It's subtle, but it's there. It might also
depend on graphics drivers, screen resolution and size to notice it - I'm
running at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor, using an ATI Radeon 9200SE. I've also
noticed the same on some of my own pages on part of the intranet here, and
that page is just simple HTML with a few buttons - no stylesheet, no font
settings, nothing that would change the border setting.

I've posted a screenshot from my PC at http://www.worldofspack.com/temp/buttons.jpg
(114kb, 1024x768) where you can see the problem. The borders on some buttons
are thicker, and appear to be scaled up pixels.

Dan

Rob wrote on Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:46:17 +1100:

> Hi Marshall,
>
> I do not see any difference, with or without a user stylesheet. Don't
> forget a user can choose how they want to see HTML elements by selecting
> their own User defined Stylesheet. But in the sample you gave the source
> does not reveal any reason why border widths on buttons would be dependant
> upon their width.
> "Marshall Dudley" <mdudley@king-cart.com> wrote in message
> news:43988F87.3A1029ED@king-cart.com...
>> Why does IE make the linewidth on boxes thick if the text in them
>> exceeds a certain number of characters, but thin if it does not. I can
>> find nothing to indicate how to turn this off, and no other browser
>> seems to do it. As an example look at:
>>
>> http://kingcart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=alsoptions
>>
>> Notice the "All Products" box is thin, but the longer ones are thick. If
>> I change the length of the text in any box the line width will change.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marshall
>>

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the screenshot. It makes it all clear. Your on an XP machine with
an XP 'version' of IE and mshtml.dll. Yep I can clearly see the difference.

There are quite a few differences between XP rendering and non-XP.

One way around this effect may be to use styling or even image buttons i/o
button tags.
"Daniel Crichton" <msnews@worldofspack.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OGWw$gL$FHA.3800@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Well, I see the difference. It's subtle, but it's there. It might also
> depend on graphics drivers, screen resolution and size to notice it - I'm
> running at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor, using an ATI Radeon 9200SE. I've
also
> noticed the same on some of my own pages on part of the intranet here, and
> that page is just simple HTML with a few buttons - no stylesheet, no font
> settings, nothing that would change the border setting.
>
> I've posted a screenshot from my PC at
http://www.worldofspack.com/temp/buttons.jpg
> (114kb, 1024x768) where you can see the problem. The borders on some
buttons
> are thicker, and appear to be scaled up pixels.
>
> Dan
>
> Rob wrote on Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:46:17 +1100:
>
> > Hi Marshall,
> >
> > I do not see any difference, with or without a user stylesheet. Don't
> > forget a user can choose how they want to see HTML elements by selecting
> > their own User defined Stylesheet. But in the sample you gave the source
> > does not reveal any reason why border widths on buttons would be
dependant
> > upon their width.
> > "Marshall Dudley" <mdudley@king-cart.com> wrote in message
> > news:43988F87.3A1029ED@king-cart.com...
> >> Why does IE make the linewidth on boxes thick if the text in them
> >> exceeds a certain number of characters, but thin if it does not. I can
> >> find nothing to indicate how to turn this off, and no other browser
> >> seems to do it. As an example look at:
> >>
> >> http://kingcart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=alsoptions
> >>
> >> Notice the "All Products" box is thin, but the longer ones are thick.
If
> >> I change the length of the text in any box the line width will change.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Marshall
> >>
>