CSS not working for button appearence - Internet Explorer - css

Question

I Have the following HTML and CSS for the current scenerio:
As you can see, the search textbox and the filter dropdown are appearing perfectly in-line. But the button is appearing down.
Here is the HTML code for all the 3 controls:
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="search_result_div">
<div>
<input type="text" style="width:200px;" id='searchButton' value="some text"><span> in </span>
<select id="filterDropdown">
<option value="all" selected="selected">All Areas</option>
<option value="docs">Documents</option>
</select>
<a onclick="return callSearch();" class="btn" id="searchButton" href="../sys/SearchResults.aspx?q="><span>Search</span></a>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Here is the CSS for all the controls:
.search_result_div a.btn
{
background: url("/images/bg_btn_left.gif") no-repeat scroll left center transparent;
display: inline !important;
float: none;
font-size: 11px !important;
line-height: 21px !important;
margin: 0 !important;
outline: medium none;
padding: 3px 0 3px 2px !important;
text-indent: inherit !important;
}
.search_result_div a.btn span
{
background: url("/images/bg_btn.gif") no-repeat scroll right center transparent;
font-weight: bold !important;
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 4px 8px 4px 6px !important;
}
Note: The button is divided into two images.
bg_btn_left.gif :
bg_btn:
Please suggest where am I going wrong?
Thanks

Answer 1

Try this:
<style type="text/css">
.search_result_div a.btn
{
background: url("bg_btn_left.gif") no-repeat scroll left top transparent;
display: inline !important;
float: none;
font-size: 11px !important;
line-height: 21px !important;
margin: 0 !important;
outline: medium none;
padding: 4px 0 3px 2px !important;
text-indent: inherit !important;
}
.search_result_div a.btn span
{
background: url("bg_btn.gif") no-repeat scroll right top transparent;
vertical-align:top;
font-weight: bold !important;
margin: 0 !important;
padding: 4px 8px 4px 6px !important;
}
</style>

Answer 2

Its one of the problems I had to go through myself. I think I solved it by setting all default margins and paddings to zero. See if that helps you.
*{margin:0px; padding:0px;}
or if its a problem of aligning use
vertical-align: middle;

Answer 3

For inline elements, you can use the vertical-align: middle; CSS property to align verticaly.

Answer 4

look here it is: http://jsfiddle.net/YUXxf/
your code is working as you wish but i think the image has a top border bigger which is pushing the image downwards..

Answer 5

I always add this css file css.reset to my project to make sure i don't use the default css settings defined by the browser.

Answer 6

Hey i think you should give to some properties your .search_result_div a.btn
as like this
input{
vertical-align:top;
}
.search_result_div a.btn{
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
*display:inline; // for ie
}