Closed Bug 223792 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

fonts in form elements larger than surronding text

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(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: bugs, Assigned: blizzard)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915

In any page that uses forms that require single lines of text, Mozilla uses a
much larger font than what is normally used in text.  This font should match if
not be slightly smaller than normal.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Pull up any page using forms, including Slashdot.org or MasterZDM.com
Actual Results:  
Form elements use a larger font than normal text.

Expected Results:  
The same font size should be used.


I'm using the Slackware 9.1 build of Mozilla 1.4, built with gtk2.0 and using
Microsoft's fonts grabbed from a copy of Win2K.
Attached file Testcase HTML
This is a screenshot of that HTML.
Attached image Slashdot screenshot
Obligary Slashdot screenshot, comparing normal text with form text.
Screenshot of MasterZDM.com, showing that textbox forms don't exhibit the same
bugs.
What build options did you use?  (What are the contents of about:buildconfig .)

This could be a result of enabling GTK2 but not enabling Xft.  In any case, it's
probably a GTK system fonts problem.
Assignee: font → blizzard
Component: Layout: Fonts and Text → GFX: Gtk
Using 1.4.1 20031009, which comes in severn 0.95, I can't see a problem either
in the testcase or on Slashdot or MasterZDM, but I can't see it in your
screenshots either. What does xdpyinfo report for DPI?
about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.2.3 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-pedantic -Wno-long-long -O2 -march=i486 -mcpu=i686 -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.2.3 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy
-pedantic -Wno-long-long -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe

Configure arguments
--prefix=/usr --enable-optimize --disable-debug
--with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 --enable-strip-libs
--disable-tests --disable-short-wchar --enable-nspr-autoconf
--enable-extensions=default,irc --enable-crypto --disable-xprint
--without-system-nspr --with-system-zlib --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
--disable-freetype2 --enable-xft 
Built a copy of the 1.5 release just in case, and nada.  about:buildconfig reports:

--prefix=/usr --enable-optimize --disable-debug
--with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla --enable-strip-libs
--disable-tests --disable-short-wchar --enable-nspr-autoconf --enable-crypto
--disable-xprint --without-system-nspr --with-system-zlib
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --disable-freetype2 --enable-xft 

I'm using a dpi of 135, and my .gtkrc-2.0 is:

style "default"
{
        font_name = "Arial 7"
}

class "*" style "default"
Does changing the dpi affect it (could be bug 197037) or the default UI font? 
How about playing with the fonts settings in mozilla's UI?
I'm not sure what you mean.  Right now, I have the X server repor the DPI as
135, and I've told GTK 2.0 to use Arial 7 as it's font.  Mozilla's taking that
in for the core UI font... but that's not what's being used for the text in the
webpage fonts -- it's definetly using Times New Roman.

Could it be that Mozilla's supposed to use the system-defined UI Font (Arial in
my case) instead of the webpage font (Times New Roman) by default?
No, it uses whatever the web page and the prefs inside of Mozilla tell it to. 
See the fonts prefs dialog in preferences.  You can change the mappings for the
generic CSS fonts, but sometimes web pages specify fonts other than the default
CSS fonts.

You can probably work around this if you are really dedicated by changing your
userChrome.css file.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Which pref is this in userChrome.css?  Right now, I have this:

* {
    font-family: Arial !important;
    font-size: 7pt !important;
}

input {
    font-family: Arial !important;
    font-size: 8pt !important;
}
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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