>I think I'll stick with HTML 3.2 for downlevel browsers and save myself some headaches

That will work to. I prefer writing the HTML manually (old habits). The main reason for this is that I find the IDE adding a lot of un-neccessary HTML code that often causes layout problems.

>you can also do this:
>

><style>.w60{width=60px}.w70{width=70px}</style>
><form ....
><asp:textbox id="TextBox1"  runat="server" cssstyle=w60>
><asp:textbox id="TextBox2"  runat="server" cssstyle=w60>
><asp:textbox id="TextBox3"  runat="server" cssstyle=w70>
>

>
>Charlie

-or- you can add the "size=nn" attribute directly to the controls HTML code (even though the editor flags it as an error). This way even the older browser will work.

<asp:textbox id="TextBox3"  runat="server" size=5>

Sure would be nice to not have to worry about such crap.