Closed Bug 256653 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

When doctype is implicitly specified, a button in a form can't get underline style

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219516

People

(Reporter: koko, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

If 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
is specified in the beginning of the html document and if you try to assign
underline style to a button in a form, the text do not appears underlined:
<input type="button" style="text-decoration: underline;" name="alabala"
value=""> did not work, neiter "! important" to the style. If the doctype
declaration is ommited, everything goes fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make a new html document, beginning with <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
2.Put a form in it.
3.Put a button in the form.
4.Attach a stile to it: text-decoration: underline;

Actual Results:  
The button text did not appears underlined.

Expected Results:  
The button text should be underlined

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219516 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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