192858 - listbox control text invisible (white text on white background)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Vladimir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

See steps to reproduce

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the http://www.astalavista.com
2. Select anything in the Dropdown list (top-left)

Actual Results:  
Nothing selected

Expected Results:  
The selected item should appear in the box.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme on linux.... sounds like more trouble with the native theming on windows.

Comment 2

[Tim Hill]

yeah..  We only turn off theming for textboxes and buttons.  Maybe we should
expand it to selects, listboxes, checkboxes and radio buttons?

Comment 3

[Vladimir]

It is very strange. Just checked in Mozila 1.3 RC (downloaded it using ASA's link)
but this bug is still here. It is not even among critical for 1.3.
Obviously it will render many Web sites unusable!

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

I can't see that this will affect many sites - the dropdown works ok. the
problem is just that it's styled to have white text and a transparent
background. Mozilla does the white text, but the "transparent" background shows
white as well, rather than black like the page body - so you have white on white.

are there many major sites that use CSS on form controls?  this certainly
doesn't deserve "blocker" severity. if you think it should block 1.3, you're
supposed to set the "blocking1.3" flag to the "?" setting.

Comment 5

[Vladimir]

I do not know haw many sites have this problem (how to count them?)
but I think one is enough to show the problem.

There is another bug 95287(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95287)
which has different problem with the dropdown.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So does anyone actually own this bloody native theming mess?  If so, could that
individual take this bug?  ;)

Comment 7

[Jacek Piskozub]

WFM, mozilla1.3 2003030905 build on WindowsME.

Vladimir: do you have a clean build (into a new empty \mozilla.org directory)?

Comment 8

[Michael Lefevre]

forgot to mention in previous comment, although I thought it was implied, I see
this bug 1.3beta on win2k, and whatever nightly I was using when I made the
previous comment (20030304 I think).

reassigning to a component... no clue about who the owner should be.

Comment 9

[timeless]

this bug is tim's. however, it isn't critical so he'll get to it on his own
schedule. if someone cares about the problem they are welcome to offer to help
fix it, people on #mozilla will provide pointers to such a person.

Comment 10

[Vladimir]

Comment #7
Jacek,

1. Yes, I had a clean build. I always delete the old mozilla.org directory.
2. The latest buid of 1.3 Mozilla for Windows I found was 2003021008.
3. The problem exists for NT 4.0 SP 6a and W2000 SP 3.

Comment 11

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.