332124 - text-decoration: underline doesn't in form buttons display unless form button is floated

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Using Firefox 1.5.0.1, it seems that the style "text-decoration: underline;" is only respected on a form input if that form input is also floated. Other styles work fine (font style/size, color, etc.).

Here's a test case (I'll attached it as well) http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/firefox/testcase1.html

The underline *does* display regardless of float status if there is no DOCTYPE speficied.

Comment 1

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Attachment: Test Case

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

See bug 219516

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

There's code somewhere (search for the string PaintTextDecoration as a substring of the function name) that makes distinctions between blocks and inlines for how text-decoration is handled.  That's probably what the issue here is, since floats are blocks.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This does look basically like bug 219516.

Comment 5

[Gabriele Best [:Gabri]]

Can you fix it in firefox3?

Comment 7

[pike]

I agree this does look basically like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219516
There is a old discussion there wether it is really a bug as per the CSS2 specifications.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444795 was trying to escape that discussion for the <button> element only. It's not a duplicate, it's a particularisation.

*-pike