217742 - input type=button (or submit) does not accept text alignment

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 138403

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

In the followinf form:

<form>
 <input type="button" style="text-align:left;width:200px" value="not left">
 <input type="submit" style="text-align:left;width:200px" value="also not left">
</form>

does NOT left-align the text in the "input" (IE does, W3C says it should).
In some cases, with a number of buttons below eachother it looks real bad if the
values with different lenght are center aligned.
Most seem to work around it by using a picture with text i/o the input button,
but I find that rather inefficient (more loads, more bytes).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

The submit portion of this at least is definitely a dupe of bug 138403, though
that doesn't say anything about non-submit buttons. Note David Baron's comments
about whether the CSS spec actually says anything about form controls obeying
text-align.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Whether a button submits or not does not affect the way it's laid out.  And no,
W3C says nothing whatsoever about what applying text-align to a replaced element
should do.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138403 ***