Boundaries of a fieldset

**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...

Code:


<!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>

<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
#myform  {
    padding-top:35px;      /* this value may need fine tuning !!! */
 }
#myform fieldset {
    position:relative;
    padding-top:20px;      /* this value may need fine tuning !!! */
    background-color:#ccc; /* same background-color as body or container background-color*/
 }
#myform legend {
    position:absolute;
    margin-top:-36px;      /* this value may need fine tuning !!! */
    margin-left:10px;      /* this value may need fine tuning !!! */
 }
</style>
<![endif]-->

</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

**lizat** · 11-25-2009, 03:12 PM

Oh that's good

, thank you!

**coothead** · 11-25-2009, 03:27 PM

No problem, you're very welcome.

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