Bug 63367 – REGRESSION (r72052): Placeholder text alignment is no longer defaulted to the alignment of regular text

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

[Yair Yogev]

Created attachment 98565 [details]
testcase with different alignments\directions

Before r72052, if a textbox had "text-align: center" style, its placeholder also appeared in the middle (same goes for "text-align: right" accordingly)

but since then, the placeholder is always aligned to the left for regular direction input elements (and to the right for dir="rtl" elements)

This is now affecting Chromium's DOM-UI options for Hebrew\Arabic UI since many input elements there were edited recently to have right alignment to properly support URLs and patterns (intentionally not using dir=ltr which isn't correct for such content).



Note: This issue is different than bug 54814 which is about the support for webkit-input-placeholder which got lost in r72052
also related but different: 
Bug 54797 REGRESSION (r72052): Placeholder text isn't centered with a large line-height

Tested using windows build

[Yair Yogev]

small correction in the summary: intentionally not using dir=*rtl*

[Yair Yogev]

InChromium issue: http://crbug.com/87546

[Kent Tamura]

Fixed by http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/90971

[Kent Tamura]

*** Bug 67495 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Brandon]

Comment on attachment 98565 [details]
testcase with different alignments\directions

Placeholder text alignment is no longer defaulted to the alignment of regular text