[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 63367] New: REGRESSION (r72052): Placeholder text alignment is no longer defaulted to the alignment of regular text

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63367

           Summary: REGRESSION (r72052): Placeholder text alignment is no
                    longer defaulted to the alignment of regular text
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Unspecified
        OS/Version: Unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Forms
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: progame+wk at gmail.com
                CC: adele at apple.com, darin at apple.com, mitz at webkit.org,
                    playmobil at google.com, xji at chromium.org


Created an attachment (id=98565)
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testcase with different alignments\directions

Before r72052, if a textbox had "text-align: center" style, its placeholder also appeared in the middle (same goes for "text-align: right" accordingly)

but since then, the placeholder is always aligned to the left for regular direction input elements (and to the right for dir="rtl" elements)

This is now affecting Chromium's DOM-UI options for Hebrew\Arabic UI since many input elements there were edited recently to have right alignment to properly support URLs and patterns (intentionally not using dir=ltr which isn't correct for such content).



Note: This issue is different than bug 54814 which is about the support for webkit-input-placeholder which got lost in r72052
also related but different: 
Bug 54797 REGRESSION (r72052): Placeholder text isn't centered with a large line-height

Tested using windows build

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