9690 - [4.xP] Text input element should be in monospace font

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17303

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

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

Text input elements should be in a monospace font, as they are in 4.x.  This
can be fixed with the following rules in ua.css (I have them in mine right
now):

input[type] { font-family: inherit; }
textarea, input, input[type=text], input[type=password] {
        font-family: monospace;
        }

The unfortunate complexity is due to the acceptance of input elements without a
type.  I'm not sure if this is legal HTML or not, but...

Comment 1

[Peter Linss]

Pushing off non-beta 1 issues

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Why should <input type=text> be in monospace? I agree for multiline controls,
but with single line text inputs there is nothing to align with particularly,
so it would appear to me that the point is moot.

For single line text controls, IE5 uses a sans-serif proportional font, which
IMHO looks much nicer.

Comment 3

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Reassigning peterl's bugs to myself.

Comment 4

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Accepting peterl's bugs that have a Target Milestone

Comment 5

[Pierre Saslawsky]

It was fixed a while back, although not exactly as shown above: textarea and
input[type=text] use 'font-family:-moz-fixed'.

Closing as duplicate of 17303.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17303 ***

Comment 6

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified dup of #17303