<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" value="1" style="min-width:1px;" />
</body>
</html>
This is my code and it is not working. Is there any other way in HTML, JavaScript, PHP or CSS to set minimum width?
I want a text input field with a dynamically changing width, so that the input field fluids around its contents. Every input has a built-in padding of 2em
, that is the problem and second problem is that min-width
ain't working on input at all.
If I set width more than it is needed than the whole program is messy, I need the width of 1px, more only if it's needed.
Best Answer
In modern browser versions, CSS unit
ch
is also available. To my understanding, it is font-independent unit, where1ch
equals to width of character0
(zero) in any given font.Thus, something as simple as following could be used as resize function:
That example would resize "elem" to length of the value + 2 characters extra.
One potential problem with the unit ch is that in many fonts (i.e. Helvetica) the width of the character "m" exceeds the width of the character 0 and the character "i" is much narrower. 1ch is usually wider than the average character width, usually by around 20-30% according to this post.