Re: lynx-dev non-breaking space in input forms

[dickey]

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> >From: address@hidden 
> >>From: address@hidden 
> >> in the field.  I grabbed the source and discovered that for some reason 
> >> in the form they have attempted to set the word "for:" apart from the 
> >> selection box and text entry field with &nspc; characters.  But those 
> >> cause lynx to position the input cursor in the middle of the text field. 
> >perhaps they're doing something that assumes the font's proportional and 
> >trying to compensate for it with spacing... 
>  
> I suspect so.  But why does Lynx interprete the nspc's as meaning to position 
> the cursor into the input line? 
for instance (guessing of course), if the spaces are in a large fixed
font, and they're trying to overlay a smaller proportional font.

-- but I haven't looked at the page (am in the middle of other stuff).

> Larry W. Virden                 <URL: mailto:address@hidden> 

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Thomas E. Dickey
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