Some Users See Messed Up Label Controls

[fripper]

I have developed a web site using VB .Net 2003 ... and it appears to be
functioning properly when I view it. I have had a couple of people tell me
that when they view some of the pages (using the exact same version number
of Internet Explorer that I use) some of the label controls have their text
clipped (i.e. truncated) ... and consequently they don't see the whole
label. It appears that labels with fairly long text values (maybe 30+
characters) are most likely to be clipped. Can someone suggest what might
be causing this ... and a solution to fix it? I would also appreciate a
reference to an article that talks about developing web sites using VB .Net
that will be viewed by "foreign" browsers ... Mozilla, Mac, Netscape ... or
even earlier versions of IE.

Thanks very much.

 

[Scott]

My first guess would be larger than normal text sizes in the browsers of
your friends.

To see what I mean (or to check yourself) go to your website and change the
text size, ie:
IE6: View->Text Size->Larger.
Moz: View->Text Size->Increase.

Maybe that'll shed some light?

 

[fripper]

Thanks Scott. It turns out that another user of my site claims that the
text in a button control is truncated. Changing the text size with the View
menu does not effect the size of text in a button control.

 

[Scott]

Your message was a bit unclear if this was the problem or not. Since I don't
do much ASP.NET anymore maybe this isn't the problem, but usually the VS web
page designer adds the width attribute to everything (buttons, included, I
think). Did you try getting rid of this kind of information? or is the
problem something else?

Scott