Form Expandes When the User Enters Text in IE6

[computerbarry]

Hi all

I have a contact form set up, and when the user types into the #comments textarea in IE6 the textarea expands to the right about 10,20px?

Why is this?

my code ..

html:

<h2> Question / Comments</h2>
<p align="center">
<textarea name="comments" id="comments"></textarea>
<span class="orange">*</span></p>

css:

#comments {width: 78%;height: 70px;overflow: auto;padding-right: 2px;padding-left: 2px;}

thanks!

[computerbarry]

thanks every 1! managed to sort the problem #comments {width: 78%; should of been #comments {width: 300px; didnt seem to like the %..

thanks

[vic.stanciu]

It's not that it doesn't like the %. It's just that 78% of the firefox window is not the same width as 78% of IE's. Especially if the page is not too tall, since firefox doesn't display a scrollbar until the content overflows, while IE has a scollbar no matter what.

[computerbarry]

Thanks for that, come across a simlar problem a while back, i had to set the container height to 101% and have a scroll bar present all the time to stop ff making my content jump over the page.

cheers!