187744 - page says numerical colors should be revealed, but it looks like the named color is revealed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021231
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021231

The named color is revealed instead of numberical color.  Page says it should be
otherwise.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load URL.
Actual Results:  
document.alinkColor = yellow

Expected Results:  
document.alinkColor = #ffff00

Comment 1

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

We fixed this for document.bgcolor in bug 39210 because it was what IE did. 
Similar things can be done here, too.  What does IE do?

Comment 2

[Brant Gurganus]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39210 ***

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is _not_ a dup.  It involves changing different code.

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

bgColor != aLinkColor.

Comment 5

[Harshal Pradhan]

IE6 returns #ffff00. So does NS4.7.

Comment 6

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Then the fix is trivial, though it would be replicated for 4 properties (aLink,
vLink, link, text).  It probably should be a macro define.

Comment 7

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Attachment: Probably something like this

Comment 8

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

To me

Comment 9

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Checked in 01/13/2003 07:29 PST.