Primeng: Nova-light: Border-box sizing applied to all html elements

[tundisto]

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Plunkr Case (Bug Reports)

https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-g1quqa

Current behavior
Nova-light now globally applies border-box sizing to all HTML elements of an application. This causes styling issues for custom or third party components that are outside of PrimeNG's control.

You can say that this a duplicate of 7352, which was summarily closed without explanation. I can think of no reason for PrimeNG to apply border-box sizing to * as it changes the sizing of all elements, even those elements which don't use PrimeNG. If your inclination is to close this as well, I respectfully request a reason be provided for this behavior.

This breaks styling globally:

resources/themes/nova-light/theme.css

* {
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

Before PrimeNG 7 (default content-box):

After PrimeNG 7 (now with nova-light's border-box applied to *):

Expected behavior
PrimeNG themes only affect explicitly declared PrimeNG components/directives/classes.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
Unbreak the styling of my application.

• Angular version: 7.x

• PrimeNG version: 7.x

• Browser: all

[KensingtonTech]

Why not change it to something like this?

[class^="ui-"] {
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

[cagataycivici]

Almost all CSS libraries use border-box as default so it is default in our themes as well. It is too late to make a change as it will break existing apps.

[KensingtonTech]

No one is arguing that you shouldn’t use border-box for PrimeNg. Other libraries don’t globally apply their styles to entire applications! I’m sorry but that’s absurd. Please take your fingers out of your ears, apply the border-box just to PrimeNg, and stop messing with global styles.

And it is extremely rude of you to just close these cases without even hearing your users out.

[KensingtonTech]

I even gave you the css to do it. Why would you NOT use it?

[KensingtonTech]

@cagataycivici Why are you being so recalcitrant? Are you even reading the issues? Reopen the issues that you've appallingly closed summarily, and re-apply your change to just primeng elements, as you have elsewhere.