309305 - Text rendering in form text entry elements is not consistent with the surrounding page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Andre Sihera]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Form text fields do not appear to be rendered at the same size as the text on
a normal web page. Instead, the height of the entire text control (including
borders) appears to be the same size as the page text. The intuitive operation
is that the height of the text INSIDE the control should be the same as the
height of the text on the surrounding page (where no size overrides are in
effect).

In practical use cases, this results in web-pages where the text on the page is
readable but the text in the form input fields is unreadable, and re-sizing does
not enlarge the form text to the same degree as the page text either. This is
ESPECIALLY a problem for far-eastern character sets involving complex Kanji
which become unreadable when the rest of the page is readable.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set your text preferences to view serif and sans-serif text in Japanese and
western encodings to 13, 14, or 16 point.
2. Go to www.google.co jp and search for anything

Actual Results:  
When typing in the search box, the text is SMALLER than the text used for
returning the results. It should be the same. The reduced size results in some
Kanji been illegible without enlarging the entire page, whereupon the page grows
in size and requires additional scrolling, etc. etc.


Expected Results:  
All text should be the same size (inside or outside forms) where overrides have
not been programatically specified (e.g. through CSS).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

textfields use the "field" system font, so the size will depend on your operating system settings for textfield fonts.