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| Text input area on www.amazon.co.uk |
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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:54:37 +000 |
The text entry field in the search bar at http://www.amazon.co.uk/ is
not showing any of the text that I enter. I think it is because the
vertical height of the box is so small that the characters are being
truncated so that all that is visible is the space above the characters.
See: http://swiftys.org.uk/images/amazon.jpg - the vertical bar in the
input field is the cursor to the right of some text I'd entered.
Does anyone else see this effect? (I'm using Opera 9.24 but I've
observed this effect for a long time, certainly on previous releases)
Or is it something that I've done which is causing this?
If it is something in the amazon HTML, is there anything I can do to
correct the problem? I normally chose user mode whilst I'm entering
search items, but I'd like to see if this can be fixed, or at least
bypassed.
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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:24:55 -050 |
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:54:37 -0500, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The text entry field in the search bar at http://www.amazon.co.uk/ is
> not showing any of the text that I enter. I think it is because the
> vertical height of the box is so small that the characters are being
> truncated so that all that is visible is the space above the characters.
>
The typed text shows here with any version of Opera I try. Is there a
chance that you have a skin installed that affects the textbox height, or
that you're using a larger font?
> See: http://swiftys.org.uk/images/amazon.jpg - the vertical bar in the
> input field is the cursor to the right of some text I'd entered.
>
> Does anyone else see this effect? (I'm using Opera 9.24 but I've
> observed this effect for a long time, certainly on previous releases)
>
> Or is it something that I've done which is causing this?
>
> If it is something in the amazon HTML, is there anything I can do to
> correct the problem? I normally chose user mode whilst I'm entering
> search items, but I'd like to see if this can be fixed, or at least
> bypassed.
>
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Ken
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Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:28:17 +000 |
Ken Knox wrote:
> The typed text shows here with any version of Opera I try. Is there a
> chance that you have a skin installed that affects the textbox height,
> or that you're using a larger font?
Did you go to www.amazon.co.uk? www.amazon.com doesn't have the problem.
I use the "Marina" skin, but switching back to Opera Standard doesn't
affect the problem.
The actual textbox used for the search text entry is only about half the
height of <INPUT TYPE=TEXT> controls on webpages that have no styling
applied. I'm sure if I could find why that input box is shrunk
vertically then I could work on a bypass.
Incidentally, I get exactly the same display problem using Firefox
2.0.0.10 so it is unlikely to be anything that I've done.
I've complained to amazon.co.uk; I'm hoping to get a response from them
for Christmas. :-)
I did some research. Here is the minimum HTML for me to reproduce the
problem (all taken verbatim from amazon's HTML:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
INPUT {font-family:fixed}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="text" value="">
</form>
So it is something to do with that font-family:fixed
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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
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Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:57:00 +000 |
Steve Swift wrote:
> So it is something to do with that font-family:fixed
Five minutes extra research show that should be:
INPUT {font-family:monospace}
Otherwise they are assuming that I have a font named "fixed" on my
system. I don't.
However, it would be nice if Opera would ignore CSS that specifies a
font that I don't have.
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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
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Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:39:49 -050 |
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:28:17 -0500, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ken Knox wrote:
>> The typed text shows here with any version of Opera I try. Is there a
>> chance that you have a skin installed that affects the textbox height,
>> or that you're using a larger font?
>
> Did you go to www.amazon.co.uk? www.amazon.com doesn't have the problem.
>
Yes, I did.
> I use the "Marina" skin, but switching back to Opera Standard
doesn't
> affect the problem.
>
I always use the Windows Native skin, because it'smuch faster on this old
machine.
> The actual textbox used for the search text entry is only about half the
> height of <INPUT TYPE=TEXT> controls on webpages that have no styling
> applied. I'm sure if I could find why that input box is shrunk
> vertically then I could work on a bypass.
>
It appears here as normal height.
> Incidentally, I get exactly the same display problem using Firefox
> 2.0.0.10 so it is unlikely to be anything that I've done.
>
> I've complained to amazon.co.uk; I'm hoping to get a response from them
> for Christmas. :-)
>
> I did some research. Here is the minimum HTML for me to reproduce the
> problem (all taken verbatim from amazon's HTML:
>
> <head>
> <style type="text/css">
> INPUT {font-family:fixed}
> </style>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form>
> <input type="text" value="">
> </form>
>
> So it is something to do with that font-family:fixed
>
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Ken
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