From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Changing text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer does not alter text in, for example, APLAWS Folder Browser Create new: dropdown list. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. From Microsoft Internet Explorer menu, select View, then Text Size Largest. 2. In back-end Folder Browser, look at text size in Create new: dropdown. 3. Actual Results: Text size increases everywhere except in dropdowns Expected Results: Text size increases everywhere including in dropdowns Additional info: In Netscape, Text size increases everywhere including in dropdowns
This appears to be a bug in internet explorer. We are using symbolic font size names throughout CMS, eg 'small', 'x-smal', 'medium', etc. There are no specific styles set against the <select> or <input> tags so they should inherit font size from their containing element, but they do not appear to be doing this. I experimented with setting an explicit font size, but that only works for '<select>' elements - text fields ie <input> elements still don't re-size. The only way I can get them to reliably resize is to switch to using percentage sizing instead of symbolic names, but this causes problems in older (ie pre v5) versions of Internet Explorer.