144363 - checkbox and radio style

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Michal Belda]

Since 1.0-rc1 checkbox and radio buttons have had problem with border-style. The
specified style is used only when element has focus, otherwise it is displayed
with default border-style. Other attributes (border-color, background-color..)
seem to act consistenly.

Comment 1

[John P Baker]

See discussions in bug 106317 and bug 134927

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->HTML Form Controls

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This was done on purpose, since some border-styles (eg "none") make checkboxes
and radio buttons invisible and are somewhat commonly used out there.

Comment 4

[fantasai]

Allowing authors to change the border style also interferes with keyboard 
navigation. Checkbox focus is conveyed through border style, and if this border 
style remains constant because an author did not specify a different :focus 
rule, there is no way to tell whether or not the checkbox has focus.

marking WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[corner]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Allowing authors to change the border style also interferes with keyboard 
> navigation. Checkbox focus is conveyed through border style, and if this border 
> style remains constant because an author did not specify a different :focus 
> rule, there is no way to tell whether or not the checkbox has focus.
> 
> marking WONTFIX.

But why do you believe that you should make that decision for the authors of the webpages? Why not let them determine what is necessary to get correct focus behavior etc, instead of enforcing those annoying borders on everyone?

If someone develops somehting unusable, he will fix it, or the users will complain or go away. IMHO, that is just not something that the browser should be concerned with at all.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> If someone develops somehting unusable, he will fix it

A number of very very popular sites were unusable if we allowed border styling.  Shipping that way was simply unacceptable -- users would assume the browser is buggy, not the site, and simply not use the browser.