239359 - <input type="file"> cannot be resized with CSS width attribute + lack of repaint

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 52500

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect)

Description

[maenneph]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

It isn't possible to set the CSS width: attribute for an <input> Element
of type="file". See the URL for further detail.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. attempt to set the css-width of <input type="file">
Actual Results:  
The element is not resized.
Additionally, the area, that would be occupied in case the width would have been
accepted, is not filled with the specified background-color.

Expected Results:  
The element is resized by the browser flawlessly.

Comment 1

[maenneph]

Attachment: ... demonstrates incorrect rendering of <input> element

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52500 ***