hello, I am coding a dummy search box right now that absolutely has to be 38px high it cannot stretch. However when I added form tags to test it, looks fine in dreamweaver but stretches in my browser at least 10px.

Are there any fixes for this?

<table width="980" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#000000">
      <!--DWLayoutTable-->
      <tr>
        <td width="764" height="38">&nbsp;</td>
        <td width="216" valign="top">
        
        
        
        <form>

<table width="216" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
          <!--DWLayoutTable-->
          <tr>
            <td width="162" height="38" valign="middle"><input name="search" type="Text" class="textbox" size="20"></td>
              <td width="54" valign="top"><img src="images/search.gif" width="54" height="38" /></td>
          </tr>
        </table>
        </form>        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>

Put the following CSS in somewhere:

form {
     margin:  0;
     padding: 0;
}

You should be good to go.

Wow - that works perfect! Thanks.

I have built many websites, but usually just deal with it - but this form had to stay at that height - great to know.

Isn't it? It's a universal solution too. Use it well, friend.