89128 - CSS1 border styles on checkboxes/radio buttons are ignored

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Skewer]

Procedure: View checkbox CSS1 testcase.

Expected: Inner size of form controls remain same size, and borders expand outward.

Actual: Borders expand into the control, making it difficult or impossible to read.

Build: 2001070204 Win98

Comment 1

[Skewer]

Attachment: Checkbox CSS1 testcase

Comment 2

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Over to HTML Form Controls.

Comment 3

[Skewer]

Can anyone think of a way that this bug might cause dataloss?

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

I am not sure if this is a bug or not, the forms.css sets the width and height, 
if the user set those to appropriately larger values it would look fine.

We could set ! important on the borders and such in forms.css and that would 
ends this behavior also.

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Marking nsbeta1-

Comment 6

[Brian Hauer]

[e-mail], this is more of a question than a comment.  I am attempting
to build a stylesheet that changes the border of checkboxes to a solid (flat)
edge.  Only through researching the bug reports related to checkboxes did I
stumble upon the existence of forms.css and the ! important keyword.

I am curious why anything in forms.css is marked as ! important.  Is there an
overriding concern that authors could design a stylesheet that confused the user
too much by removing borders from key UI elements?

This seems particularly strange to me because in my attempt to build a
stylesheet for form elements, I have been successful in setting the borders for
text inputs and textareas, but not select lists or checkboxes.  Hence, it is
possible for me to build a inconsistently customized user interface but not a
fully customized consistent one.

Sure, I can go into -my- forms.css and remove the ! important from border-width:
2px and border-style: inset, and my stylesheet then works as intended.  But no
other users would see what I see.

I do not mean to be critical of the decision, I am just curious if you could
educate me on why the ! important keyword is present in forms.css at all.

Comment 7

[Skewer]

That was done as a workaround to this bug (In the past the items were unusable,
currently the border-width style is ignored). However, the current behavior is
still wrong, because now Mozilla is completely ignoring author border-width
styles. What we need is for the size of checkboxes/radio buttons to expand as
the size of the border expands, or vice versa if necessary.

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

I think this is All/All.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

CSS1 has nothing to do with form controls.