[Build ID: 2000070608] Is it possible to have a nice variable-width font (like Arial) in HTML textboxes (like IE has, and like we have in the URL bar) or must we stick with the ugly monospace?

We can choose to have a different font font like arial when in standard/strict mode. But for the default which is NavQuirks mode we are stuck with the monospace font. reassigning to to the L&F folks.

Why do we have to stick with the monospace for quirks mode?

Because the font determines how the text control sizes, and if it doesn't size exactly the same as NavQuirks, a lot pages probably won't layout correctly. We have worked very hard to try to get the pages to layout the same.

Fair enough. Would be nice to get this for standard/strict, at least.

That is up to the style/UI police.

I just ran into this too. From my point of view, there is no logic in allowing CSS changes to the font of INPUT[type=text] elements, but not to the font of TEXTAREAs. Beside logic or not, without a possibility to change the TEXTAREA font, site designers may be forced to do a re-design (proportional fonts and the ugly Courier usually don't mix well). Imagine site designs completly done without a monospace font... Just my opinion.

Are we talking about the default font for standard/strict mode if the page author has not spec'd anything different with CSS? If so yes it should be something like sans-serif by default. assining back to rods, since I do not really have anything to do with its implemenation

My comment was about the possibility to specify a font via CSS for TEXTAREAs. This does not work for me in Standard mode (Transitional DTD). I find this very annoying, because it is a) different from all other controls and b) it is different from IE. If no font has been spec'ed from the page's author, monospace or whatever has been set in the prefs would be a natural choice.

Matthias: you're talking about a separate issue. German: yes, I'm referring to the default font for textboxes and textareas, assuming no other font is specified in the page. Right now, we use an ugly monospace font (e.g. Courier), while IE uses *much* nicer fonts (e.g. Arial).

cc erik rod, per german's last comment, could you please make this change?

Then the solution will be to have the font setting "moz-fixed" for NavQuirks mode and sans-serif for strict

Marking nsbeta3+

Setting priority to P1

*** Bug 49883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Here is something facinating about how IE sizes their controls: The algorthim appears to be: default font: (ave_char_width * (size_attr+1)) + 6 monospace: (ave_char_width * size_attr) + 7 serif: (ave_char_width * (size_attr+2)) + 6 arial: (ave_char_width * (size_attr+2)) + 5 So basically, I can't seem to find a consistent algorithm. So I will probably go with the default algorithm so we size the same in the default font.

Setting priority to P3 according to new criteria

So does this still mean no variable-width in quirks mode? If so, and strictDTD is being removed, then...

Rod: Once you've done whatever needs doing in code for this bug, please reassign to me so that I can integrate the html.css and quirk.css changes with my versions. Cheers.

fixed

Now the fonts on Linux are huge. Text input fonts are ~18 points monospace. Select boxes are ~18 points bold sans serif. Linux build 2000-09-06-08.

Reopening. Rod, what is the font & size of the 'new default'?

I am not sure what the default font is suppose to be on Linux. I think it should be a helvetica like 10 or 12 point font.

This bug is fixed. The size of the font in the testarea's and textfield is controlled by the CSS3 fonts. The size problem gtk is already covered by bug 48907.

Marking VERIFIED FIXED on: - LinuxRH62 2000-09-13-08-M18 Commercial - Win98 2000-09-13-08-M18 Mozilla - MacOS86 2000-09-13-04-M18 Commercial

*** Bug 92446 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***