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Bug 13548 - size, width and height attributes on input should be conforming but obsolete
Summary: size, width and height attributes on input should be conforming but obsolete
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: steve faulkner
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2011-08-03 00:57 UTC by Cynthia Shelly
Modified: 2013-03-28 13:20 UTC (History)
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Description Cynthia Shelly 2011-08-03 00:57:33 UTC 
size, width and height attributes on input are presentational and should be phased out in favor of CSS.
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:04:48 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-02 00:43:51 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I agree. Unfortunately, the Web authoring community does not. Some authors want height/width inline to avoid the page moving around and some authors think size="" is non-presentational because it gives the likely number of characters in the data.
Comment 3 Cynthia Shelly 2013-01-15 01:02:35 UTC 
reopening for HTML.next
Comment 4 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 15:58:37 UTC 
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 5 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 16:01:23 UTC 
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 6 steve faulkner 2013-02-11 09:13:29 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: agree with Comment 2.
Please feel free to re-open if you have some data/information on the negative impact of the use of the attributes.