When I use the following CSS:
input[type=button] {
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid black;
font-size: 15px;
height: 20px;
padding: 7px;
}
with this HTML:
<input type="button" value="Foo" />
I expect to see this, so the total height becomes 36px:
1px border
7px padding
20px content (with 15px text)
7px padding
1px border
But instead both Firefox 3.6 and Safari 4 show this: (Haven't tested in other browsers)
Screenshot http://labs.spiqr.nl/upload/files/1223ef9cbae3ab6e43bd1f9215ebedb157ac7b22.png
1px border
7px padding
4px content (with 15px text) => height - 2 * border - 2 * padding
7px padding
1px border
Does anyone have any idea why this happens?
(Even if it's expected behavior, what's the logic behind it?)
Form elements have traditionally had a width/height that includes their padding/border, because they were originally implemented by browsers as OS-native UI widgets, where CSS had no influence over the decorations.
To reproduce this behaviour, Firefox and others render some form fields (select, button/input-type-button) with the CSS3 box-sizing style set to border-box, so that the width property reflects the entire rendered area width including the border and padding.
You can disable this behaviour with:
select, button {
box-sizing: content-box;
-moz-box-sizing: content-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
}
(or, which is more common for liquid form layouts where you want to use ‘100%’ width, you can set the others to border-box.)
The -browser prefixed versions have to be there to catch browsers that implemented this before the standardisation process got so far. This will be ineffective on IE6-7, though.
A few things you can try:
- Set the doctype of the document (
<!DOCTYPE html>)
- Set the input to be
display:block or display: inline-block
- Use a reset stylesheet.
It makes sense because the height of the element is naturally more than what you set it to. input elements are assigned a height which, in this case, should be enough to contain the text of your element but you set it to a smaller amount. To show this, remove your height setting.
I got it working removing the padding of the input button and setting a height around 20. then adjusting the height, padding of the anchor element.
I Also set the line-height, font-size and the font-family.
worked on FF,IE,safari and chrome :D
