On Feb 8, 2008 8:59 AM, Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/test.html > > I think I see the problem. In FF it seems the following CSS only > affects textarea and NOT input text fields: > > input, select, textarea { > font-size: 70%; > } >
FF applies correctly that rule to all affected element, but the textarea uses a different font, which moreover being monospaced has a browser default size smaller than the size of the default font (usually 13px versus 16px.) Indeed you already mentioned this at the beginning of this thread. And here is article about it [1]. The different default has probably the intention to make the monospaced default font look more similar to the non-monospaced default font. But in your case, when you reduce all the sizes at 70% this 'compensation' looks a bit excessive. (IE has its own, different defaults and does not allow to have a different default for monospaced fonts.) If you don't like this behavior, you may explicitly set a non monospaced font-family on your textarea (and other elements). Or if you prefer that form elements maintain their default font settings (which are browser and OS dependent) you may do nothing, and assume that users know this, and have possibly changed their FF font settings according to their likes. Bruno [1] http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200609/font_size_inconsistencies_with_fontfamily_monospace/ -- Bruno Fassino http://www.brunildo.org/test ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
