Boundaries of a fieldset [Archive] - Dynamic Drive Forums

lizat

11-23-2009, 04:56 PM

Dear dynamics,

I have a small login form in which I have used a field set and legend. We wanted to "colour in" the frame, however the extent of the fieldset seems to include the height of the legend, which is, I suppose, logical.

So the question is this: is there a way to force the backgound colour to start within the boundary of the fieldset's surrounding box?

thank you................... lizat

coothead

11-23-2009, 10:28 PM

Hi there lizat,

your problem only occurs with IE.

Like most things with IE, there is a work around for this oddity.

Here is an example for you to play with...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="language" content="english">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

<title></title>

<style type="text/css">
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body {
margin:10px;
background-color:#336;
}
#myform {
width:224px;
padding:20px;
border:1px solid #000;
margin:auto;
background-color:#999;
}

#myform fieldset {
padding:10px;
border:1px solid #000;
background-color:#ccc;
color:#000;
}
#myform legend {
border:1px solid #000;
padding:5px;
margin-left:20px;
background-color:#ffc;
font-size:0.8em;
color:#300;
}
#myform input {
display:block;
width:200px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
}
</style>



</head>
<body>

<form id="myform" action="#">
<fieldset>
<legend>this is a legend</legend>
<input type="text">
<input type="text">
<input type="text">
</fieldset>
</form>

</body>
</html>

coothead