Table Width (ASP.NET) in firefox

[amtrac24]

Hey Everyone,

Having a little trouble with this...It works in IE fine but in Firefox not so well.

Basically I am getting a dataset from an XML file then using a server side table to dymnically create the table with textbox's so the user can modify the data.

Basically I am trying to set the width of the textbox

newTextBox.Width = System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit.Pixel(500)

In firefox it just doesn't even attempt to modify the width of the textbox

In IE the source code ends up:

<input name="_ctl0" type="text" value="Date: 4/16/06 -- Removed all late binding in favor of early binding to improve speed performance. All logic was added to session variable returns. (Version updated to 1.2)" style="width:500px;" />


In firefox:
<input name="_ctl0" type="text" value="Date: 4/16/06 -- Removed all late binding in favor of early binding to improve speed performance. All logic was added to session variable returns. (Version updated to 1.2)" />


Here is the code in ASP.NET - vb


Dim i As Int32
Dim newTableCell As TableCell
Dim newTableRow As TableRow
Dim dsXMLFile As New DataSet
Dim newChkBox As CheckBox
Dim newTextBox As TextBox

dsXMLFile = CType(Session("adminXMLNewsDataSet"), DataSet)

For i = 0 To dsXMLFile.Tables(0).Rows.Count - 1
newTableRow = New TableRow
newTableCell = New TableCell
newChkBox = New CheckBox
newTextBox = New TextBox

newTableRow.Width = System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit.Percentage(90)
newTextBox.Width = System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit.Pixel(500)
newTextBox.Text = CType(dsXMLFile.Tables(0).Rows(i).Item(1), String)
newTableCell.Controls.Add(newTextBox)
newTableRow.Cells.Add(newTableCell)
tblNews.Rows.Add(newTableRow)
Next


Anyone have any idea's. I havent tried using CSS to use for the table property's yet.

Thanks for yoru help in advance

[amtrac24]

Also just a note...I basically created the same thign in a datagrid with the same results. So something is going on with firefox...i just need to figure a workaround...

[jkrohn]

That is not a firefox problem, that is an IIS problem. It is detecting the browser and sending it different code. Firefox isn't changing the code it receives.

Jkrohn

[amtrac24]

I def see your point. We had the same issue with regular ASP project. We updated the browscap.ini file. Do JKrohn do you know how ASP.NET deals with this? Is it with the browscap.ini file?

[amtrac24]

Yeah you are right... When I run
Dim s As String = ""
With Request.Browser
s &= "Browser Capabilities" & vbCrLf
s &= "Type = " & .Type & vbCrLf
s &= "Name = " & .Browser & vbCrLf
s &= "Version = " & .Version & vbCrLf
s &= "Major Version = " & .MajorVersion & vbCrLf
s &= "Minor Version = " & .MinorVersion & vbCrLf
s &= "Platform = " & .Platform & vbCrLf
s &= "Is Beta = " & .Beta & vbCrLf
s &= "Is Crawler = " & .Crawler & vbCrLf
s &= "Is AOL = " & .AOL & vbCrLf
s &= "Is Win16 = " & .Win16 & vbCrLf
s &= "Is Win32 = " & .Win32 & vbCrLf
s &= "Supports Frames = " & .Frames & vbCrLf
s &= "Supports Tables = " & .Tables & vbCrLf
s &= "Supports Cookies = " & .Cookies & vbCrLf
s &= "Supports VBScript = " & .VBScript & vbCrLf
s &= "Supports JavaScript = " & _
.EcmaScriptVersion.ToString() & vbCrLf
s &= "Supports Java Applets = " & .JavaApplets & vbCrLf
s &= "Supports ActiveX Controls = " & .ActiveXControls & _
vbCrLf
End With
TextBox1.Text = s


It basically just craps out and returns browser cabilities and thats it...when i run it in IE it gives me all the IE info.....

So I researched online about changing the settings on my .net machineconfig file but couldn't really find anything that I understood. Have you modified that file before?

Any help would be appreciated...

[amtrac24]

jkrohn...I got it...I think i just got fustrated.... just had to add the following lines to machine.config....Thank you for your help...I so thought the problem was code based. Thank you again for your help. I really appreciate it.

<!-- GECKO Based Browsers (Netscape 6+, Mozilla/Firefox, ...) //-->
<case match="^Mozilla/5\.0 \([^)]*\) (Gecko/[-\d]+)(?'VendorProductToken' (?'type'[^/\d]*)([\d]*)/(?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters' \w*)))?">
browser=Gecko
<filter>
<case match="(Gecko/[-\d]+)(?'VendorProductToken' (?'type'[^/\d]*)([\d]*)/(?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)(?'letters' \w*)))">
type=${type}
</case>
<case> <!-- plain Mozilla if no VendorProductToken found -->
type=Mozilla
</case>
</filter>
frames=true
tables=true
cookies=true
javascript=true
javaapplets=true
ecmascriptversion=1.5
w3cdomversion=1.0
css1=true
css2=true
xml=true
tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
<case match="rv?'version'(?'major'\d+)(?'minor'\.\d+)( ?'letters'\w*))">
version=${version}
majorversion=0${major}
minorversion=0${minor}
<case match="^b" with="${letters}">
beta=true
</case>
</case>
</case>

[jkrohn]

Glad you got it (was out all day).

ASP.Net and IIS can be fun like that at times

Jkrohn