Dear Monks,

I'm sure this must be an age old question, with a definite answer, but I can't seem to find it.

I'm trying to make a CGI form with CGI.pm, which uses some textfields, and some textareas.

As an example: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $q = new CGI;

print $q->header; 
print $q ->start_form;
print "<br><br>";
print $q->textfield(
        -name      => 'field',
        -value     => 'field',
        -size      => 100,
        -maxlength => 100,
    );
print "<br>";
print $q->textarea(
        -name      => 'area',
        -value     => 'area',
        -rows      => 2,
        -columns => 100,
    );
print $q ->end_form;

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The problem is that the widths of the fields vary differently with different browsers, and I would like the widths of the textarea and textfield to be the same on each browser.

My short-term solution is to use HTTP::DetectBrowser, and set browser-dependent values for the textarea( -columns). Clearly, this isn't a very smart way to do it.

Does anyone know how to get around this, using perl cgi?

Thanks for your time

In reply to perl CGI: textfield and textarea width variability by mtmcc

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