Subject line in comment form is too long with both sidebars

adding this to style.css helps by 10px (see screenshot1):

input.form-text {
  width: 100%;
}

but unfortunately some browsers don't take the padding & border into account when calculating percentages for widths on form elements. (for reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1633522/html-input-element-wider-than...)

if you put this in style.css then the width is fine (see screenshot2)

input.form-text {
  width: 100%;
  border: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  background: #EEE; /* this is just so you can still see the input field */
}

but this is obviously not acceptable.

The final option (as I see it) is to set widths in px instead of % but this is also not optimal...

Thoughts?

Subscribing so I can come back to this later.

Is this still an issue in any browser now we have #749062: Adjust grid to put more space between things

I've attached a screehshot if what I see in FF3.6 (I added background color to #block-system-main to add highlight). Ignore the empty node content, thats something to do with Locale when a node does not have a translation...

@heather, wow, i really wish I had an answer for that, I am plagued by it also, I keep meaning to seach core issues to see if its been posted against core.

AFAICT whenever a node has Language Neutral (und) this happens. In #258785: Provide more flexible settings for initial language on content types in this comment voxpelli spells it out, when Local is enabled and the content type has translation turned on the language is set to neutral (und), if translation is off then the nodes language is set to the site default, in which case this issue of disappearing content does not happen.

I've tried to track down the issue but its rather over my head (ie where is it? fields, node api, local?), maybe Gabor has the answer and we should submit an issue if one does not exist.

Also, note that the comment box should have more height. Currently, it is too short, which makes commenting a bit awkward: http://skitch.com/evandonovan/n7ye4/comment-box-size. (Note that with the Apr. 2 checkout of Bartik, and on this page, the subject box is actually shorter in length than the comment body box.)

Lets deprecate this in favour of #760906: Make the Comment Submit box way more interesting and pretty