Flow's wikitext area doesn't respect the text formatting user option/preference (monospace, serif, sans-serif, etc.).
Top of the "Editing" section in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
name = editfont - One of the MediaWiki DefaultUserOptions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions
See T72028: Should Mediawiki UI change font-family for textareas?
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | SBisson | T95831 Flow wikitext area doesn't respect text formatting option (monospace, sans-serif, etc.) | |||
| Resolved | Esanders | T145015 ResourceLoaderUserCSSPrefsModule: Use a CSS class, not a global rule, to enforce editfont |
This happens because OOUI TextInputWidgets set font-family: inherit on the textarea inside them, overriding the textarea { font-family: monospace; } rule that is generated when you have editfont=monospace in your preferences. Which makes sense in the general case (we don't want multiline TextInputWidgets embedded in MW to haphazardly have editfont applied to them), so I think instead we'd have to modify ResourceLoaderUserCSSPrefsModule.php to target a CSS class instead of all textareas.
IS it possible to fix it? I had a new feedback about the lack of differences between the two modes.
Thanks to rEFLW274bcd2fb4ee: Fix font family and size for wikitext input, this will be fixed once T145015: ResourceLoaderUserCSSPrefsModule: Use a CSS class, not a global rule, to enforce editfont is fixed.