You may use max-width property
Write something like this in your CSS file:
.textbox1
{
max-width: 300px;
width: 100% !important
}
where, textbox1 is the id of the textbox.
you can replace 100% with whatever you have specified in your code.
It works on IE6+ and Mozilla 3.5+ browsers. Have not checked for previous versions.
Check it out and let me know if this it what you wanted. :thumbsup:
Cheers!
Ankur