49883 - FEATURE: Option to change the font utilized in forms

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44656

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Stefan Vassall]

Build no. 2000082106 (linux)

Currently the default font for form entry is courier. To change this font you
have to go to preferences and change the fixed-width font to your prefered font.
But this (as far as I am aware) will also change the font rendered when pages
request the current set-fixed width font.

As I hate courier when filling, but don't want to really change the way many web
pages are rendered it would be really useful to have an option to change ONLY
the font used in forms.

If this is not possible can I suggest that we default to forms using a font like
helevicta/arial which is much nicer!

Comment 1

[Chris Brien]

It is possible to change the font used for forms by using CSS. For example:

input,textarea {
	font-family : arial,helvetica,sans-serif
}

To make it default, you can tell Mozilla to use that style-sheet for all web-pages.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

well, it's not that easy actually.  see bug 44656

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44656 ***

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified (bug 44656 has a fix)