20515 - [DOGFOOD]font can NOT be overriden with style for input text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17303

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[rods (gone)]

The html.css sets the font for input type=text to "-moz-fixed" which sets it to
a monospaced font (courier). If I set the font via inline style to sans-serif it
does not change the text field's font it remains monospace.

This used to work a few weeks ago when I was doing all my form control sizing
work and most specifically the text field. I did the work using both the default
font and sans-serif.

This is a DOGFOOD because the font is used to calculate the height and width of
the text control and if it isn't correct then the text controls get sized
incorrectly and pages layout badly.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

Attachment: demonstrates the problem

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

correcting summary

Comment 3

[rickg]

We're marking this PDT-, unless the text is complete illegible.

Comment 4

[Pierre Saslawsky]

It's a dup of bug 17303. The font family is overridden by a hard-coded style rule
called PlaintextInitalStyle in nsTextEditRules.cpp. It means that all the text
input fields in the application are in monospace font.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17303 ***

Comment 5

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified dup of #17303