radio buttons in Netscape

tcranfield posted this at 05:23 — 13th March 2000.

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Anyone know how to get Netscape to draw a radio button surround colour correctly? For example, the following HTML produces a radio button inside a table cell. The button surround should be red in colour but instead Netscape punches a hole through to the white background, so it looks rubbish. Of course IE does it correctly. Is there some clever workaround?

<BODY BGCOLOR="white">
<TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="5">
<TD BGCOLOR="red">
<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="button1">The button
</FORM>
</TD>
</TABLE>

Ken Elliott posted this at 20:07 — 13th March 2000.

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Well I found a solution, didn't test it in all versions of NS though, just NS4.
Here's the html

code:

<BODY BGCOLOR="Red" BACKGROUND="http://www.real-world.cc/images/white.jpg">
<TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="5">
<TD BGCOLOR="Red" >
<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="radio"  NAME="button1">The button
</FORM>
</TD>
</TABLE>
[/code]

In the head tag, I change the background color to red because that appears to be what NS uses for the bgcolor of the radio button. So inorder to return the background color to white. I created a 1x1 pixel .jpg which I would make a gif for size purposes(me:lazy). It is hosted on my website so just test the code while online.
I would also mess around with the table border colors as well because it inherits the background color of the document.

Hope that helps.

VulKen
Real-World.cc

[This message has been edited by VulKen (edited 13 March 2000).]

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Suzanne posted this at 01:05 — 14th March 2000.

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Net Mechanic's newsletter addressed this recently -- use CSS to change the background to the same as the table cell with SPAN.
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/no1.htm

hth,

Suzanne

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tcranfield posted this at 13:01 — 14th March 2000.

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Hey, thanks for the replies and the netmechanic.com link, very helpful and much appreciated

Lloyd Hassell posted this at 02:47 — 18th March 2000.

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I had this same problem for a script I made (NN only). When I added the style="background:#333333;" to one of the radio buttons, all the others changed too. Wierd.

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