Bug 13577 – ER: the default font for textarea is not monospace (needed platform specific html4.css)

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: Forms

[Jungshik Shin]

This is not a bug per se, but it'd be nice to be compatible with Firefox and MS IE. 

Adding the following line to WebCore/css/html4.css (between the style specification for 'input, textarea, keygen,...' and that for 'input[type="hidden"]' would do it.

textarea {
        font-family: monospace;
}

I wonder what others think of this change.

[Dave Hyatt]

This is incompatible with how textareas look on the Mac.  I think it would be appropriate for the RenderTheme to make this decision so that a RenderThemeWin could do what it wanted to do.

[Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google)]

Since this can be solved via a platform-specific change to html4.css, wouldn't it be better to ship a platform-specific html4.css instead of modifying code to support this?

[Robert Blaut]

Confirmed as enhancement request.

[Ahmad Saleem]

It is currently configured to "system-ui":

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/css/html.css#L411

plus HTML standard does not add "monospace" for textarea:

>> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-textarea-element

[e-mail] - Is this valid anymore?

[Ryosuke Niwa]

We're not making this change in general for texture.