Closed Bug 141526 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

input-text-boxen one 'size-point' too long

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(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103293
Future

People

(Reporter: clearing_up, Assigned: john)

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Details

(Keywords: platform-parity, regression, Whiteboard: [DUPEME])

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020501
BuildID:    20020501

In the following HTML-Input I can put 6 caracters, w/o box-scrolling:
<input type="text" size="5">

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
New HTML-Form with the HTML-Input-Source above

Expected Results:  5 carcters w/o scrolling like netscape communicator 4.7x and
ie 5.x+
Sorry, this is invalid.  The default font for text-inputs is a variable-width
font, in which the "width of a character" is a meaningless concept.  Try putting
5 copies of the letter "W" in that input field, then try five copies of the
letter "i" to see what I mean.  We try to size to an "average" character size
and match closely to IE/NS4 most of the time.
 
If you are having the problem you describe and the font being used is _fixed_
width, please reopen and attach a testcase (and my apologies in that case)....
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
The problem occured width the Courier New/Courier font, with fiexed width.
I used the following relevantly HTML/CSS-Source:

<html><head>
<style type="text/css"><!--
 input.txt { background-color:b8d4f0; border-right:1px solid #ddeeff; border-top:1px solid #ddeeff; border-left:1px solid #ddeeff; border-bottom:1px solid #ddeeff; font-family:courier new,courier; font-size:10pt; }
//--></style>
</head><body><form>
<input type="text" name="code" class="txt" size="5">
</form></body></html>

With this Source I can reproduce this bug. But it's only an optical thing...
Thanx
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Sorry, I surveyed the attachment-function the first time.
That testcase worksforme on Linux.... (Exactly 5 chars fit).

What do you mean by "it's an optical thing"?
So it looks on my Win98SE (that i called "optical problem"),
with the <textarea>'s i've a similar prob with the width (6/8 instead of 5/7 --
w scollbar/wo scrollbar by cols="5")
Or must it be a local problem? (I have the problem with older Mozilla-Versions,
too -- like the old 0.6 - a row-problem with textareas must be solved since
0.6)
confirming based on that screenshot.  :)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
The two textfields on the top of the page ought to contain 65 characters,
exactly!
But the "input"-tag is containing 66chars and the "textarea" even more.
The latter one doesn't also obey to options like "wrap=HARD" or
"wrap=physical"!

How annoying this bug could become, you may consider, if tables like the one
showed will become more deeply nested with every field 1 char TOO LONG...
Attached image textarea-example
The problem you've with the <textarea>'s isn't really one.
A textarea should be automatically 2 'points' wider and one higher, because of
the scroll; but they are _3_ points wider (one too much, like type=text).
With wraps i've got problems too...
Example: cols="5", rows="2", actually 8/3, 7/3 would be corret, i think.
*** Bug 143693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seems windows-only, and fairly bad...
nsbeta1-. Engineers are overloaded with higher priority bugs.
Keywords: nsbeta1nsbeta1-
-->
Assignee: rods → jkeiser
There is an exact dup of this bug somewhere, but I can't for the life of me find it.
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [DUPEME]
Target Milestone: --- → Future
*** Bug 183911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The problems with fixed-width fonts are fixed by bug 103293 and the rest of the
behavior mentioned in this bug is correct....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103293 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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