129803 - [XBLFC] min-width of buttons is about 9ex (<input type="button"> or <button/>)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[John Morrison]

the min-width of '<input type="submit" value="X">' appears to be 
about 9 characters wide (i.e., doesn't size to content below 9 
chars).

[Comments based on testing with 2002030710 trunk build, classic skin, win2k,
XBL Form Controls enabled, unless otherwise noted. madhur: could you test this
on the full matrix (Classic|Modern) X (win32|MacOS9|MacOSX|Linux) and update
this bug with the status on those platform/skin combinations.  Thanks.]

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Attachment: testcase for min-width of <input type="button"> or <button/>

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

adding nsbeta1. I think we do need to consider each of these for machv if we 
are to do xbl-based form controls.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As a note, it makes sense to never go below about 2 chars in width (that way
there is some padding on buttons if the label is a single character).

Comment 4

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

need to remove min-width in classic button.css

Comment 5

[David Hyatt]

The patch in 129786 also fixes this.

--> me

Comment 6

[David Hyatt]

Fixed.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reopening. You didn't fix modern, so buttons in modern still look like crap.

Buttons in classic are much better now, modulo bug 130303

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

Nav triage team needs info: Are we going to use modern for XBL form controls? 
If not, this should not be needed for MachV.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 131840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Re-resolving, since we are not using modern for XBL form controls.

Comment 11

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1- per Nav triage team, ->1.2 (in case of reopen)