Inconsistent .css('font-weight') return values

[whatthejeff]

The origin of this issue is: ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/b9b87d53c681a8337cdbdbe81f8f4e577e5ec277

In WebKit/Blink browsers, window.getComputedStyle returns the following for font-weight:

• "100"
• "200"
• "300"
• "normal"
• "500"
• "600"
• "bold"
• "800"
• "900"

In WebKit/Blink browsers, .css() returns the following for font-weight:

• "100"
• "200"
• "300"
• 400
• "500"
• "600"
• "bold"
• "800"
• "900"

It's inconsistent that the return type for normal/400 is a Number when the return type for all other values is a String.

It's also a little confusing that "normal" is converted to a numeric value, but "bold" is not.

In other browsers, both window.getComputedStyle and .css() return numeric strings for all values. This seems like the most desirable behavior.

[dmethvin]

Seems that once again we're halfway in to fixing a messy rare edge case, one that probably matters for 1% of all users since it's survived this long. The spec does say that "bold" ==> 700 though so we could attempt to fix this.

​http://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-weight-prop

[dmethvin]

Let's fix "400" but not "bold".

[Dave Methvin]

CSS: Return values should be numbers

Fixes #14792

Changeset: f4b37d89820535d6c7503925aa8872645681a865

[anonymous]

Thanks :)