68664 - Inaccurate Form Text Box width

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 43847

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Lyon Lim]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
BuildID:    20010209

The text box size defers from IE and NS.
How does it actually render the textbox? It should have some form of 
consistency.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a text box, <input type="text" name="form" size="30">
2.view on browser
3.view page in NS and IE

Actual Results:  the difference in text box size/width is seen clearly.

Expected Results:  have a form of consistency between the various browsers.
CSS property of font-size should have an effect on the size of it.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page in question uses a strict doctype, so this has nothing to do with the
problems described in bug 25657.  Probably a duplicate of bug 43847 or bug 44467.

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

The page brings in a different style sheet depending on whether it is IE or Nav. 
I need a reduced test case with no linked style sheets.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hmm... Looking at the source, the only place I see stylesheets being loaded is:

var NAV=navigator;
 if ( (NAV.appName == 'Netscape') && (parseInt(NAV.appVersion) <= 4) ) {
  document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ns.css">')
 }
 else {
  document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">')
 }

now for Mozilla, appVersion is 5.0, so Mozilla and IE actually get the same
style....

Attaching a testcase of the reporter's suggested <input type="text" name="form"
size="30"> so that the way it renders in IE and Moz can be compared.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 5

[rods (gone)]

I have not been able to find a way to get out text controls to size exactly like 
IE's when in strict mode. Feel free to review Bug 43847 and Bug 25657. Until 
somebody can tell me what the algorithm is, I am afraid we are stuck.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43847 ***