269426 - textbox text-align: center is not always centered

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Eric Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I have the following text box and have some assigned styles that make FF stop
centering the text:

<input type="password" name="login[pin]" id="login_pin" value="" class="ibox"
style="width:145px;text-align:center;letter-spacing:0.7em;font-weight:bold">

Initially the box is centered correctly, but if I type in a lot of characters
(10-12+) and then repeatidly hit Backspace, it eventually stops being centered
and is now off center. See attachment for example.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Input several characters to make the textbox "scroll" to the right
2. Hit backspace several times to clear the box
3. Textbox is now uncentered




Default theme

Comment 1

[Eric Brown]

Attachment: Sample

Comment 2

[Eric Brown]

Attachment: A Few Test Cases

Also note that text-align: right is wrong, too. This is probably more dramatic
than text-align: center because of the BIDI and RTL languages. text-align: left
operates fine.

Textareas are afflicted with some other issue; the text is always centered in
the drawn text area region, not centered in the actual text (ie, type a line
with wwwwwwwww ad naseum and you will see). Is this a display issue or a
nonissue?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is probably a bug of us not scrolling the text back into view on backspace...

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Er, "a dup of the bug on"

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by checkin for bug 268352.