dynamic size for input box

Hi,

I have an input box which needs to be able to change in size depending on the number of characters that are fed into it when the page is loaded. Is there a way of setting the size="" parameter to take in a dynamic variable equal to the length of the figure fed into it?

At the moment it just renders at a fixed size and that doesn't accomodate to my design wishes.

Thanks

Hi,

Welcome to JavaRanch!

Are we talking about HTML or about a Java Swing GUI?

Hi,

It's on a HTML page.

<input type="text" size="?var?" etc..>

OK, cool. We have a forum for HTML and Javascript here. I'm going to move this topic there, and I'm sure someone will be able to give you a good answer.

Is this what you want:

The size of the textbox will change depending on the length of the string 'someString'
[ July 25, 2006: Message edited by: jaikiran pai ]

The thing is setting a length of a string to the size of a textbox will still be wrong. type in a bunch of i or spaces or w and see what happens.

You will see you are not going to get a good fit, but it will work just fine.

Eric

yes that does the job.

Thanks