I am developing a website using forms and one of the browsers being targeted is unfortunately IE 6 and 7. I am having an issue with CSS and IE's rendering of form elements that are styled.
I have written a test case, and it is as such (also available online at http://xistence.osnn.net/testcases/ie67fieldset/):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>IE [6|7] Wha?</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-weight: inherit;
font-style: inherit;
font-size: 100%;
font-family: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
}
/* remember to define focus styles! */
:focus {
outline: 0;
}
body {
line-height: 1;
color: black;
background: white;
}
#req fieldset {
border: 0;
border-top: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0em 1em 0em 1em;
}
#req legend + label {
margin-top: 0.5em;
}
#req legend {
font-size: 1.2em;
}
#req label {
display: block;
background: none;
}
#req input, #req textarea {
position: relative;
display: block;
left: 200px;
top: -1em;
margin-bottom: -0.3em;
}
#req input[type="text"], #req textarea {
width: 300px;
}
#req textarea {
height: 3.6em;
}
#req input[type="text"], #req textarea {
border: 1px solid #0a0;
}
#req label.required + input[type="text"], #req label.required + textarea {
border: 1px solid #a00;
}
#req input[type="submit"] {
position: relative;
top: 0;
margin: 0;
left: 200px;
margin-top: 0.5em;
}
#req input[type="hidden"] {
display: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="req">
<fieldset>
<legend>Contact Information</legend>
<label for="name" class="required">Name: </label> <input type="text" id="name" name="name"></input>
<label for="phone" class="required">Phone Number: </label> <input type="text" id="phone" name="phone"></input>
<label for="email">Email: </label> <input type="text" id="email" name="email"></input>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend>Personal Info</legend>
<label for="sports">Sports:</label> <input type="text" id="sports" name="sports"></input>
<label for="spentonline">Hours spent online: </label> <input type="text" id="spentonline" name="spentonline"></input>
<label for="moreinfo">Tell us about yourself: </label> <textarea id="moreinfo" name="moreinfo"></textarea>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I have also taken two screen shots, one of IE 7 and one of IE 8, IE 7 and IE 6 agree on this styling so I have not bothered to take a screen shot of IE 6.
IE [6|7]: http://xistence.osnn.net/testcases/ie67fieldset/ie67what.png
IE 8: http://xistence.osnn.net/testcases/ie67fieldset/ie8-correct.png
Has anyone seen this bug before? Where did I go wrong? What do I have to remove to make it work in IE 6/7 without having extra lines going through my input boxes. The extra lines are removed when the border-top is gone on the fieldset, but that is not a solution since doing so removes the whole visual separation.
It is fixed. the margin-bottom on the textarea and input[type="text"] was causing IE 6/7 to have a rendering bug. Removed those and all is well. I guess I can deal with the extra space between the elements on the page!