title: Why <textarea> and <textfield> not taking font-family and font-size from body?
body: <p>Why <code>Textarea</code> and <code>textfield</code> not taking <code>font-family</code> and <code>font-size</code> from body?</p>
  
  <p>See live example here <a href="http://jsbin.com/ucano4" rel="noreferrer">http://jsbin.com/ucano4</a></p>
  
  <p>Code</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
          "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
          &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
          &lt;head&gt;
          &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
          &lt;title&gt;texearea font&lt;/title&gt;
          &lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
          body {
              font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
              font-size:16px
          }
          &lt;/style&gt;
          &lt;/head&gt;            
          &lt;body&gt;
          &lt;form action="" method="get"&gt;
          &lt;textarea name="" cols="20" rows="4"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
          &lt;input name="" type="text" /&gt;
          &lt;/form&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;some text here&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;/body&gt;
          &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If it's a usual behavior then should i write in css like this. i need same style in all</p>
  
  <pre><code>body,textarea,input  {
                  font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
                  font-size:16px
              }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And how many other elements in XHTML which will not take font styling from <code>body {....}</code>?</p>