306687 - Use explicit type="text" attribute for text fields.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Ludvig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Please use an explicit type="text" attribute for all text fields. The current
behavior relies on type defaulting to "text", but that makes it very hard to
make style sheets that affect text boxes only.

i.e. Change:
<input name="cc" value="" size="45">
to
<input type="text" name="cc" value="" size="45">


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

I guess you could patch this if you'd like...

Comment 2

[Teemu Mannermaa (:wicked)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> behavior relies on type defaulting to "text", but that makes it very hard to
> make style sheets that affect text boxes only.

I could probably patch this if nobody else wants to. Unfortunately I don't get the reason for this change. What's the difference between defaulting to some type and specifically set a type? Isn't the end result still the same. IOW, isn't type "text" in both cases? How does this change make it easier to reference text input fields in CSS?

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Use the :not pseudo-class. For instance:

  input:not(type), input[type=text] { color: red }

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%3anot