I am experiencing an issue which puzzles me a bit.
My reference for this issue is Chrome 32 on Mac and Safari on iOS 7.0.4.
In the following example, Chrome renders the text in the .background
and textarea
elements perfect and on top of each other, this is what I want. Safari on iOS though, offsets the text in the textarea
with 3 pixel-units. This happens although padding, border and margin are set to the same values on both elements.
When I am debugging in Safari's developer tools, both through my iPhone device and the iOS simulator, the elements themselves align perfectly when outlining the elements metrics.
Markup
<div class="container">
<div class="background">This is a test</div>
<textarea>This is a test</textarea>
</div>
CSS
.container {
border: 1px solid #cdcdcd;
background: #f0f0f0;
width: 400px;
height: 50px;
position: relative;
margin: 24px 0;
}
.background {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
color: #f00;
}
textarea {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
background: transparent;
border: 0;
position: relative;
z-index: 2;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Y8S5E/2/
Can anyone offer a solution or some theories to research into, for this issue?
Edit
It appears that this is an issue with the textarea
's shadow DOM node. Does anyone have some reference to how the padding of this element is defined? Percentage value or hard 3px value? Any way to remove this padding?