Bug Report: ie7, form elements & text size

ie7, form elements & text size

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 has a somewhat odd behaviour with how it displays form elements when you adjust the text size.

It will not adjust the font size of form elements unless that form element has a CSS font-size rule set on it.
To make the element show up like it would otherwise, you need to set the font size to ~90% of what IE would otherwise use.
The box size of the element scales as you change the font size, except for "smallest" which it conflates with the box size for "smaller"
Font rendering ain't particularly clever. Notice the extra white space between the "be" and "haves" in the last example ... at some, but not all text sizes

Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Murray.

Explorer 7 | Reported on 13 November 2006.

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1 Posted by Chris on 13 November 2006 | Permalink

Oddly I don't get the spaced font effect when using the Text Size menu, but it does occur using zoom.

2 Posted by VK on 27 November 2006 | Permalink

Hello there... Form elements (including input type="text" and textarea) were always excluded from the font size adjustment on IE: unless font-size style was set. IE 7 is no different in this aspect from IE 6. The regular workaround is to set font-size:1em for inputs.