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Why doesn't line-height work on FF/3.5.8(Mac)?

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I am not aware this doesn't work on the Mac. Googling shows people talking of problems with it being too big/too small or not working as expected, and they even talk of using it in earlier versions, but no one has said it doesn't work at all. So I question your assumption that it doesn't work at all.

EDIT: I got FF and Safari switched around due to the Mac reference.

Rob 2010-03-03 13:37:56

Sadly, my assumptions are based on actual results :-(

Znarkus 2010-03-03 13:40:52

Seems Webkit sets input to 'inline-block' but Firefox sets line-height to 'normal' and '!important' so that's why it can't be changed.

Rob 2010-03-03 13:45:57

Wait, if that's just the browser stylesheet, sure it can be changed, you just have to override it by getting specific on the selectors, right? Like #content input.dammit { line-height:200% !important; }

D_N 2010-03-03 13:52:42

@DN User stylesheets override author stylesheets and this !important rule is in the browser.

Rob 2010-03-03 14:01:53

Answer 2

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This sounds suspiciously similar to bug 349259. The reason back then was that Mozilla was intentionally enforcing a line-height: normal rule for text inputs via an !important directive, and the bug is still open. Verifying with the current source code for the Firefox trunk shows that this should still be in effect, so I don't really understand how it could work in Firefox 3.6...

Jonas 2010-03-03 14:06:15

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This is still affecting FF 3.6. Its a real pain in the you know what too.

The mean little piece of code lives on line 99 of forms.css for FF

line-height:normal !important;

I seem to be able to override it for 3.5.8, but for some reason 3.6 ignores my override with my own !important.

Bob Spryn 2010-05-26 07:38:04

I take that back. I can't override it in either. Guess you can't override browser stylesheets. Bastards!

Bob Spryn 2010-05-26 08:08:55

Doesn't http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#important-rules say it should be overrideable? I think it's weird, we as a community should do something :p

Znarkus 2010-05-26 14:49:32

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