css bug or should it be like that?

Hi,

when using a css code like

input {
padding: 1px;
}

opera 9.62/linux doesn't apply that padding to <input type="submit" ...>
buttons. I thought it should since those are input elements, and FF does
indeed consider those padding values.

But with CSS I'm never sure and I couldn't reliably find out on w3c.

So is this a opera bug or should the padding be ignored for buttons?

cu,
Frank

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Op Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:34:50 +0100 schreef Frank Steiner
<fsteiner-news1.TakeThisOut@bio.ifi.lmu.de>:

> Hi,
>
> when using a css code like
>
> input {
> padding: 1px;
> }
>
> opera 9.62/linux doesn't apply that padding to <input type="submit" ...>
> buttons. I thought it should since those are input elements, and FF does
> indeed consider those padding values.
>
> But with CSS I'm never sure and I couldn't reliably find out on w3c.
>
> So is this a opera bug or should the padding be ignored for buttons?

Applying CSS to form widgets is a minefield. Especially for things like
buttons, and worst of all is the 'file upload' widget which actually
consists of two parts. The CSS spec leaves this free, so there is no
'right' way to do it.

But if you have a testcase that shows an unneeded difference between Opera
on the other browsers, Opera might want to change its behavior.

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