Bug 11916 – REGRESSION (SearchField): RTL search fields are mixed up

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Forms

RTL search fields are mixed up. Open the URL and notice how despite the close button (x) being on the right and the popup button (magnifier glass) being on the left, if you actually click in either side you get the opposite behavior. The inner text's padding is also reversed, so that on the left the text renders over the magnifier glass and on the right there's a big gap between the text and the close button.

I think the buttons should stay like this (popup on the left, close on the right) and the other stuff should be made consistent with them, like in the LTR case.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

<rdar://problem/4960255>

Created attachment 12940 [details]
Keep the cancel button on the right and the results button on the left

This patch makes RTL search fields look and behave like they do in Tiger, namely have the results button on the left and the cancel button on the right, just like in the LTR case. The only difference is that text is initially scrolled to the right (the beginning), which is a slight improvement over Tiger and consistent with other text controls.

Looking at the code, I realize that some effort has been made to make RTL fields a mirror image of LTR fields, but I'm afraid at this time it would be wrong to do so on the Mac.

[Sam Weinig]

Landed in r19412.