260817 - text-align:justify doesn't work in textarea

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Thomas Latzelsberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040921
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040921

see example. left, right and center work, but justify looks like left.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. see example
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Actual Results:  
text-align:justify looks like text-align:left

Expected Results:  
text-align:justify looks like text-align:justify

Comment 1

[Logan Ingalls]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040920 Firefox/0.10
Ditto.  Strange, there's no previous bug on this.  Marking NEW.

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

Currently the TEXTAREA works like:

# <div style="text-align:justify">
#  foo<br>
#  bar<br>
#  quuz foo bar
# </div>

And Mozilla is correct in not aligning that. However, there is bug on it since
Mozilla is not supposed to do that (making use of BR); marking dependency.

Comment 3

[Thomas Latzelsberger]

i think your example is a bit misleading because text-align:justify only shows
an effect if the test is long enough to be wrapped automatically. and if you
finish a short line with a <br> (or a newline in textarea) then there is of
course no difference to text-align:left. the URL i gave should demonstrate what
i mean. left, center and right work perfectly so i would expect justify to work
as well.

Comment 4

[Anne (:annevk)]

That is exactly how TEXTAREA works. When you think the line just goes to the
other line at the end, Mozilla inserts a BR element. (Instead of normal
wrapping.) Therefore it can't be aligned justified.

It isn't misleading at all, it shows how it (incorrectly) works.

Comment 5

[Thomas Latzelsberger]

ah, sorry. then i just misunderstood you because i would never have assumed that
mozilla inserts <br>s itself. :-o

Comment 6

[(no longer active)]

I don't understand what the br nodes had to do with this bug.  We don't justify the text which is pre-formatted, as is the case for textarea elements.  Roc, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Comment 7

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

That is correct.

Comment 8

[debman3]

I know it's not a big issue but it's still not working.