Preventing accessibilty features from sizing textboxes

[gjewett]

This problem is starting to drive me nuts, and as of yet a solution has evaded me:
I have a page with a text box in table cell that is used for searching. If a user increases the text size on their browser using the accessibility features, the textbox also grows. The problem is that eventually it stretches the table cell causing big problems with the page layout, since a textbox won't wrap.

Does anyone know if there is a way to override the browser's ability to size the textbox, or to use something like a textarea that would wrap within the cell the way text does?

Any hints would be helpful.

Thanks!

[jscheuer1]

The problem is that eventually it stretches the table cell causing big problems with the page layout

Here is the issue, how eventually? Generally, one can expect someone to shoot the size up or down about two times from the default presentational size of his or her browser to get the text large enough or small enough to suit. If there are no serious problems within that range, then it is probably not worth the effort at redesigning. Put another way, even the best designed page can be made to look pretty stupid and illegible at the extremes of increasing or decreasing the text size.