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Explore normalizing form elements with an explicit height

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
css
Domain
design, frontend

Research direction

Start with issue #699 and compare the reported Safari and Chrome heights for inputs and buttons. Define whether a canonical 36px height and related button border-radius changes are in scope, then verify the result across the mentioned platforms and browsers.

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Description

enhancement

When trying to solve for #699, it's become increasingly clear that basing the size of form elements on padding, font size, and line-height might cause issues with keeping things consistent.

For example, inputs in Safari differ in height from Chrome. They're approximately 33px. Buttons are approximately 38px. Normalizing each form element at, say, 36px would allow us to rely way less on flex layout, and would provide a consistent, canonical height to things across each platform, browser, and font.

This work should likely be tied to any aesthetic changes we may want to make to buttons e.g. increasing border radii.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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