I am having this crazy problem with this element. It never happened before. I think it might be because I added the padding but that does not make sense to me. Here is the link to the page I would appreciate some thought or solutions on this. http://www.indexedvisuals.com/scripts/contactcss.html Thanks in advance
Firefox is acting as it should. IE is in quirks mode due to the incomplete DTD. In quirks, it uses a non-standard box model, also known as the broken box model. In the proper model, width applies to the available content width. Padding, and then the border surrounds it. In IE's box model, The width applies to the outer edge of the border. After subtracting for border widths and padding widths, there could possibly be no room for content; that might explain why IE so totally screws up the overflow property. Apply a complete and proper DTD to bring IE into modern standards mode. Then adjust the width property appropriately. cheers, gary