Aligning text and select boxes to the same width in CSS?

Question

Ok this is seemingly impossible to get right. I have a text box and a select box. I want them to be the same width exactly so they line up on the left margin and the right m

Answer 1

Yes, extremely frustrating. However, I never had problems with that 'till I put a "" tag at the top of my HTML page. My webpage rendered properly on all platforms that I could test until I put that tag at the top of my document.

While that's "genuine spec", it seems to be the source of these alignment problems. FWIW, I'm using HTML5 elements, in-line CSS, etc., all without that tag to specify HTML5. YMMV.