Hi, today a friend of mine introduced me to browsershots.org. When I saw what my contact forms looked like in different browsers I couldn't believe it.

To make forms look nice I usually create a div and assign it a background image using the background-image css property. I give the div the same height and width as the background image, and then I position the input fields using the margin-top and margin-left properties.

In Safari the text fields are way too long and get out of the image. In IE the vertical separation is too little and everything is screwed up. In Opera the text fields are too tall and screws up the form as well.

Many people recommended to me not to use divs with a background for forms. My question then is: how should I do it? Can I use a table with a background image? I don't want to have a normal (ugly) contact form. Is there any way of making a form work across the browsers without giving up the nice design?

BTW, my website is www.tryarg.com/WorldCup if you want to take a look at the form at the bottom to see what I am talking about.

Well, you CAN make a rounded box, with a drop shadow, w/o using images for text on the form and w/o using one huge bg image that can't stretch or shrink to fit.

Try this for form design: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fancy-form-design-css

This source for lots of rounded corner methods:
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000044.php

if you want to make it really easy on yourself try:

http://www.emailmeform.com

Its free and easy to use and forms are pretty good quality.

Wow I don't have any input but thank you for posting that link, 1000 times thanks!!!