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Bug 11748 - The "size" attribute is disallowed, but may be useful on input="file". IE, Firefox and Opera all implement it, allowing you to reliably change the size of the file path textbox (Webkit browsers don't use a textbox). Styling the file upload file using CSS,
Summary: The "size" attribute is disallowed, but may be useful on input="file". IE, Fi...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-01-13 15:14 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-01-13 15:14:50 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/number-state.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#file-upload-state

Comment:
The "size" attribute is disallowed, but may be useful on input="file". IE,
Firefox and Opera all implement it, allowing you to reliably change the size
of the file path textbox (Webkit browsers don't use a textbox). Styling the
file upload file using CSS, in contrast, is inconsistent at best.

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Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor 2011-01-13 23:03:30 UTC 
Sounds like those browsers should just let CSS work correctly, and then the problem would go away, right?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-16 09:38:48 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: For browsers, allowing authors to style a file input in general (whether by CSS or by size="") is a bit dodgy from a security perspective. I really highly recommend just letting browsers make them look like whatever they look like.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:07:04 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1