Font size in textareas is inconsistent

I see the same thing in Firefox 3.6.11 under Ubuntu 9.10 and Firefox 3.6.10 under Ubuntu 10.04.

The problem is not confined to the Description textarea which you see when posting a new issue - the Comment textarea that I'm typing in right now to reply to an existing issue has the same huge font ...

Adding font-size:100%; to the textarea rule seems to fix both problems:

html.js .resizable-textarea textarea {
  display:block;
  margin-bottom:0;
  width:100%;
  font-size:100%;
}

This has the opposite problem in Safari, #1046838: Text size in the form submission box is too small!! (Safari). The root cause is reset.css. We use Meyer's 1.0 reset. It sets a lot of elements to font-size: 100%, but explicitly doesn't interfere with form elements.

Can anyone do browser testing to see if adding

textarea {
  font-size: 100%;
}

works well on Safari and IE 7+?

I can't seem to Update this issue. No idea why. However, I tested this and it works fine in Safari. I haven't tested the solution in IE7 however.

Textareas are now 1em everywhere. (And 1.2em on smaller screens, which is existing behavior.)