42129 - [BTN]extra padding in buttons

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Christos Cheretakis]

in the attached page there are four submit buttons. the ones left and right are
rendered without any spacing, the two in the middle are enlarged. I suppose
mozilla tries to fit them to the paragraph text above them, but does not use
spacing in all of them
linux/2000060908

Comment 1

[Christos Cheretakis]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Decklin Foster]

Attachment: What I see on 061320

Comment 3

[Decklin Foster]

Made an attachment of what it looks like here. Looks OK to me... submitter, can
you confirm if you're seeing this or something different? a screenshot would be
helpful.

Comment 4

[Christos Cheretakis]

Doesn't look ok to me, though it's rendered better on my box. Your image has
space below the text of the button to the frame of the button.
What I mean is: buttons in the middle get more space to the left & right than
the ones left & right.
Screenshot? Oh, have to find out how to make one on linux!!! I'll give it a try
right now...

Comment 5

[Christos Cheretakis]

Here you go with a screenshot. This is how it renders on my box. What I think is
not right is that the space I indicate with the lines below the buttons is wider
for the second & third button.

Comment 6

[Christos Cheretakis]

Attachment: results on my machine

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting status to New

Comment 8

[Decklin Foster]

Ah, i see it now. the extra padding seems to be caused by the presence of a
space in the label; making an extremely small testcase.

Comment 9

[Decklin Foster]

Attachment: world's smallest testcase! film at 11.

Comment 10

[karnaze (gone)]

Pierre, please triage these from Clayton's list.

Comment 11

[Pierre Saslawsky]

The problem affects all the buttons, not just the submit buttons. The padding is 
proportional to the button name, not to the number of spaces inside the button, 
and it happens regardless of the font family and font size. See the testcase that 
I'm going to attach.

The explanation doesn't seem to be anywhere in html.css. 
Reassigned to HTML Form Controls.

Comment 12

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: testcase with different fonts and sizes

Comment 13

[rods (gone)]

In NavQuirks mode (the default mode) buttons will size to 1.5 times the width of 
their text. In strict/standard mode they will size the width of the text plus 
border and padding. 

So, in NavQuirks, the longer the text the more padding you get.

Is there still a bug here? If so, plus state again what exactly is wrong. 
Marking as "Future" for now.


This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working 
on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another 
known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way 
-- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration. 

Comment 14

[bsharma]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 15

[rods (gone)]

I think this is working correctly. marking invalid