How to fix inconsistent height of HTML5 input boxes?

Some new input types introduced in HTML5 such as <input type="date"> are taller in Google Chrome. Is there a way to fix the inconsistent height without setting fixed height?

The goal is making all input types listed below including the submit button to all have the same height. Reasons:

Match the design especially when they are laid out horizontally.
Flexibility, when I need some of input boxes to have larger font size.

$("input").each(function() {
  h = $(this).outerHeight();
  $(this).parent().append(h);
});

input {
  font: inherit;
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: middle;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  border: 1px solid silver;
  padding: 0.5rem;
  margin: 0;
}

[type="search"] {
  -webkit-appearance: textfield;
}

button,
[type="button"],
[type="reset"],
[type="submit"] {
  background-color: silver;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1>Input Heights</h1>
<p><input type="text" placeholder="text"></p>
<p><input type="search" placeholder="search"></p>
<p><input type="tel" placeholder="tel"></p>
<p><input type="url" placeholder="url"></p>
<p><input type="email" placeholder="email"></p>
<p><input type="datetime" placeholder="datetime"></p>
<p><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>
<p><input type="month" placeholder="month"></p>
<p><input type="week" placeholder="week"></p>
<p><input type="time" placeholder="time"></p>
<p><input type="datetime-local" placeholder="datetime-local"></p>
<p><input type="number" placeholder="number"></p>
<!-- <p><input type="range" placeholder="range"></p> -->
<!-- <p><input type="color" placeholder="color"></p> -->
<p><input type="submit" value="submit"></p>

Solution

The issue seems to be related to the arrows added by Chrome to the date input:

These arrows are taller than the text making the whole input taller than the other. They are also treated like text so they are affected by font-size and line-height which make it a bit tricky.

An idea is to apply a min-height to the content area of all the inputs in order to match the height of these arrows. After few tests, we can have equal height if we set min-height:1.5em and make box-sizing:content-box. The use of content-box will make sure the height won't shrink for the other inputs.

$("input").each(function() {
  h = $(this).outerHeight();
  $(this).parent().append(h);
});

input {
  font: inherit;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: 1px solid silver;
  padding: 0.5rem;
  margin: 0;
  display:inline-block;
  min-height: 1.5em;
  box-sizing:content-box;
}

[type="search"] {
  -webkit-appearance: textfield;
}

button,
[type="button"],
[type="reset"],
[type="submit"] {
  background-color: silver;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1>Input Heights</h1>
<p><input type="text" placeholder="text"></p>
<p><input type="search" placeholder="search"></p>
<p><input type="tel" placeholder="tel"></p>
<p><input type="url" placeholder="url"></p>
<p><input type="email" placeholder="email"></p>
<p><input type="datetime" placeholder="datetime"></p>
<p><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>
<p><input type="month" placeholder="month"></p>
<p><input type="week" placeholder="week"></p>
<p><input type="time" placeholder="time"></p>
<p><input type="datetime-local" placeholder="datetime-local"></p>
<p><input type="number" placeholder="number"></p>
<!-- <p><input type="range" placeholder="range"></p> -->
<!-- <p><input type="color" placeholder="color"></p> -->
<p><input type="submit" value="submit"></p>

We can then adjust padding, font-size, height etc and they will always keep the same height:

input {
  font: inherit;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: 1px solid silver;
  padding: 0.5rem;
  margin: 0;
  display:inline-block;
  min-height: 1.5em;
  box-sizing:content-box;
}
.big input{
   padding:20px;
}
.small input{
   padding:2px;
}
.h-big input{
   height:50px;
}
.h-small input{
   height:10px;
}

<p><input type="text" placeholder="text"><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>
<p style="font-size:25px;"><input type="text" placeholder="text"><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>
<p style="font-size:10px;"><input type="text" placeholder="text"><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>

<p class="big"><input type="text" placeholder="text"><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>
<p class="small"><input type="text" placeholder="text"><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>

<p class="h-big"><input type="text" placeholder="text"><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>
<p class="h-small"><input type="text" placeholder="text"><input type="date" placeholder="date"></p>