Prevent text inputs growing as you type in IE6/7. Fix #46

Applying *overflow:visible to button/input causes text inputs to
grow to fit their content, even if an explicit, fixed width is
applied. It was originally included to remove excess inner
spacing on buttons and submit/reset/button-type inputs in IE6/7.

Fixing this bug in IE6 requires dropping the fix entirely because
there is no way to avoid it being applied to text inputs. If
there is a need to fix this excess spacing bug in IE6, then it
should be done using a class that is applied to the
necessary elements.

For IE7, the excess spacing fix can be moved into the ruleset
that targets button and submit/reset/button-type inputs. This
prevents text inputs from growing.

demo.html

@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
         <form>
             <fieldset>
                 <legend>Inputs as descendents of labels (form legend)</legend>
-                <p><label>Text input <input type="text" value="default value"></label></p>
+                <p><label>Text input <input type="text" value="default value that goes on and on without stopping or punctuation"></label></p>
                 <p><label>Email input <input type="email"></label></p>
                 <p><label>Search input <input type="search"></label></p>
                 <p><label>Tel input <input type="tel"></label></p>

normalize.css

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*! normalize.css 2011-09-14T10:27 UTC - http://github.com/necolas/normalize.css */
+/*! normalize.css 2011-09-22T17:42 UTC - http://github.com/necolas/normalize.css */
 
 /* =============================================================================
    HTML5 display definitions
@@ -340,29 +340,19 @@ textarea {
 }
 
 /*
- * 1. Addresses FF3/4 setting line-height using !important in the UA stylesheet
- * 2. Corrects inner spacing displayed oddly in IE6/7
+ * Addresses FF3/4 setting line-height on 'input' using !important in the UA stylesheet
  */
 
 button,
 input {
     line-height: normal; /* 1 */
-    *overflow: visible;  /* 2 */
-}
-
-/*
- * Corrects overlap and whitespace issue for buttons and inputs in IE6/7
- * Known issue: reintroduces inner spacing
- */
-
-table button,
-table input {
-    *overflow: auto;
 }
 
 /*
  * 1. Improves usability and consistency of cursor style between image-type 'input' and others
  * 2. Corrects inability to style clickable 'input' types in iOS
+ * 3. Corrects inner spacing displayed oddly in IE7 without effecting normal text inputs
+ *    Known issue: inner spacing remains in IE6
  */
 
 button,
@@ -371,6 +361,7 @@ input[type="reset"],
 input[type="submit"] {
     cursor: pointer; /* 1 */
     -webkit-appearance: button; /* 2 */
+    *overflow: visible;  /* 3 */
 }
 
 /*