Height of text items

hi,
I've created a form using the wizard. Some of the bigger VARCHAR based items got a default height of 4 lines, which is too much. So I changed them to a height of one line.
But they render different in my webbrowser (both IE and Opera) than text items which have a default height of one line and which are created by the wizard automatically.
In Opera they still have a height of about two lines, in IE the have a small inactive scrollbar on the right.
Anyone knows how to fix that?

Sebastian,
If you want a height of just "1", then I recommend switching from a Textarea to a Text Box - which has a fixed height of "1" and should render the same in most browsers.
Thanks,
- Scott -

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