Vertical alignment of submit button using CSS HTML

Question

I am having trouble getting my submit button to display in line with my inputs in internet explorer. The alignment is fine in safari and firefox but IE is dropping the button down about 5px. Any ideas why this is happening or how i can fix it?

The url is http://www.menslifestyles.com click subscribe at the top of the page the form will pop in. The two inputs line up straight but in ie the submit button doesn't align!

-------html-------

<div id="subscribe">
<form id="subscribeform" method="post" action="/maillists/subscribe" accept-charset="utf-8">
<div style="display:none;"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="POST"></div>

<label for="MaillistName">Name</label><input name="data[Maillist][name]" type="text" maxlength="255" id="MaillistName">&nbsp;    &nbsp;
<label for="MaillistEmail">Email</label><input name="data[Maillist][email]" type="text" maxlength="500" id="MaillistEmail">
<input type="submit" value="Submit"><a href="#" id="closelink">X</a>
</form></div>

-----css-------

#subscribe{
    width:620px;
    position:absolute;
    top:25px;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-120px;
    overflow: auto;
    z-index: 1000;
    background: #ffffff;
    color:#6e6e6e;
    font-size: 10px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-family: Helvetica, Verdana;
}
#subscribe input{
    border: 1px solid #e5e5e5;
    display: inline;
    height: 12px;
    color:#cccccc;
    width: 215px;
}  
#subscribe input[type="button"], #subscribe input[type="submit"]{
    clear:both;
    padding:3px, 0px;
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    font-family: Helvetica, Verdana;
    background-color:#cccccc;
    text-align:center;
    color: #3c3c3c;
    font-size:10px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;
    display: inline;
    height:15px;
    width:60px;
    position:relative;
    margin-left:5px;
}
#subscribe form{
    margin:0px;
    padding:0px;
}
#subscribe label{
    display: inline;
    font-size: 10px;
}
#subscribe a{
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #cccccc;
}
#subscribe #closelink{
    padding:0 5px;
}

Answer 1

You should set padding and margin explicitly, some browsers have different defaults which will mess things up. So margin-left:5px; becomes margin: 0 0 0 3px;

Forms are also just inconsistent generally, you may want to try and absolutely positioning the submit button, in which case give #subscribe position:relative, and the submit button position:absolute; right:0px; top:0px;

In the future you can get around default browser values, and get a more consistent look by setting default values in your stylesheet , see here for a reset stylesheet that you can include. (If you include this now it might throw a few things out)

Answer 2

In your css for #subscribe input[type="button"], #subscribe input[type="submit"] try to add vertical-align: top;

Answer 3

In this css rule

#subscribe input[type="button"], #subscribe input[type="submit"]

Change

position:relative

to

position:absolute

Should do the trick. Tested in IE 8 and works.