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See the simple form below. It's just a text box on top of a password box. If you look at it in Internet Explorer 7 (and 8, and probably others) the text box is 10 pixels wider than the password box.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>IE Text vs. Password test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="test">
<p>
<input type="text"><br>
<input type="password">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Is there a way to "fix" that globally, either through CSS or by adding something to the HTML?
Setting the width on textboxes will solve but I assume that's not what you want.
Try setting the min-width on input[type=text], input[type=password] to something greater than the default for textboxes. You'll probably need http://deanedwards.me.uk 's IE8 script to make those selectors work.
Because different font is used in those types of fields.
The fix is simply to specify that all inputs use the same font.
The problem is Internet Explorer's default encoding. Internet Explorer has an issue displaying the field lengths the same when using UTF-8 encoding. In IE, try changing the encoding to "Windows" (Page->Encoding in IE 8) while viewing a problem page and you'll see exactly what I mean.
The font size is irrelevant. as seen in this test here: http://build.jhousemedia.com/ie_test.php
I wish I could give you a solid answer as to why but the work around is to apply a fixed width to it.
You could append a fixed width for all inputs on the current page:
If you include the jQuery library in your page(s), you can use the following code to:
"When the document is fully loaded, take the first input element with type='text', and apply it's height and width to all input elements with type='password'".
I tested this on IE7 only, and it worked like a charm.
This is a generalized answer (taking the first element that matches input[type='text']). You can get a reference to a particular element that you want to match, and then get a reference to one or more password boxes with some other jQuery selector. Have a look at the documentation for getting elements by id or a group of elements by a common css class or xpath-type expression:
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors