Closed Bug 7900 Opened 26 years ago Closed 25 years ago

<input type=text> doesn't respect align=xxx for GFX rendering

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P4)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Platform:
All
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: rods, Assigned: rubydoo123)

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted, Whiteboard: still trying to determine if this bug is valid. dbaron and I think it is not.)

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor=#C0C0C0> <FORM METHOD="POST" name="myform" > <input type=button align=left value="Left" style="width:200px;"> <input type=button align=center value="Center" style="width:200px;"> <input type=button align=right value="Right" style="width:200px;"> <input type=button align=justify value="Justify" style="width:200px;"> </form> </body> </html>
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M9
URL: <input type=text doesn't respect alig...
Summary: <input type=text> doesn't respect align=xxx for GFX rendering
Assignee: evaughan → buster
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Component: Layout → Editor
This is for Ender.
need for m9?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Component: Editor → HTML Form Controls
I don't think this is specifically a text control problem, but rather a general problem with the interpretation of <INPUT>. "align" is a legal HTML property for <INPUT>, but the 4.0 spec does not say what it means specifically for <input type=text>. There are at least three possible interpretations: 1) ignore it. This is what Nav 4.x does. 2) interpret it as does <IMG>, to effect the flow of content around the control. 3) use the attribute to align text within the control. I think our choice of interpretation here effects all <INPUT> types. Rod, what was your understanding when you submitted this bug? Chris P., can you experiment with IE and report what it does? Note the test case Rod put in his description is wrong, change "type=button" to "type=text" for testing text controls. This is not an editor bug, the editor handles alignment just fine. It's a form control bug, because the form element needs to tell the editor how to display the content. I've cc'd some smart layout people to see if this issue has already been discussed and decided elsewhere.
Despice the fact that the word "align" in section 17.4 links to section 15.1.2, not 15.1.3, I think the answer is that the align attribute on the input element is for <input type="image"> only. This is because the transitional DTD says: <!ATTLIST INPUT ... align %IAlign; #IMPLIED -- vertical or horizontal alignment -- where <!ENTITY % IAlign "(top|middle|bottom|left|right)" -- center? --> . The Ialign entity is used in the ATTLISTs of the following elements: IMG, OBJECT, APPLET, INPUT, IFRAME. IAlign seems to stand for Image-Alignment since it is defined in the section on images. Furthermore, if it were for text- alignment, the values would be (left|center|right|justify). The absence of center and justify as allowed values (as they are in %align;) is quite convincing, I think.
Whiteboard: move to later milestone?
Whiteboard: move to later milestone? → still trying to determine if this bug is valid. dbaron and I think it is not.
Target Milestone: M9 → M10
Moving to M10. This does not need to be resolved for M9.
Re: buster question. IE4 ignores the align= attribute for controls other than image, just like Nav 4.x does. So solution 1 should be good provided it is compliant with the standard.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Based on nav4/IE4 behavior, and the comments from dbaron and hyp-x@inf.bme.hu, I think this bug is invalid. I don't think the text control is supposed to do anything with it's content wrt align.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Based on the comments, marking as verified invalid.
IE4 align the text in the input-box just fine. This is a very helpfull feature. The comment from hyp-x@inf.bme.hu is wrong!!! IE4 does NOT ignore the align= attribute for controls other than image, it also work with the 'text' type.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Priority: P3 → P4
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Target Milestone: M10 → M15
moving all buster m15 bugs to m16.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
need to examine the CSS spec to see if it has anything to say on the matter.
Status: REOPENED → ASSIGNED
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: M16 → M18
This really doesn't have anything to do with CSS. CSS 'text-align' probably should be able to affect a text box, but this bug is an HTML issue. The questions are: 1. what is the expected behavior of ALIGN on INPUT elements? (what values can it have?) 2. what is the current behavior? I think the answer to (1) is that it should only affect those with TYPE="image", although I'm not sure (and the values would be those allowed on IMG).
Reassigning to beppe (editor).
Assignee: buster → beppe
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
dbaron is correct -- align within INPUT is for image alignment, marking this bug as won't fix
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Verified. Authors can (and should) use "text-align" to align the text inside text controls.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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