Admin reskin: Remove line-height from input elements. Fixes #64763.#11246
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This change removes the redundant line-height property from text-based admin input elements in src/wp-admin/css/forms.css.
The height of these elements is already sufficiently handled by the min-height property (40px for standard inputs and 32px for compact inputs), making an explicit line-height unnecessary and potentially problematic for certain font-rendering scenarios.
With regards to the previous patches in this ticket, this PR also removes the line height in the reported search bar as seen below:
Before:

After:

Trac ticket:(https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64763)
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