255040 - color of select field does not update when new item is selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 79107

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[trevor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

When drawing a select field that has different colors for each option the color
of the menu does not update when a new option is selected.  In the following
example the select field will stay red regardless of the option selected.
Example code: <select name=somefield style="color:red"><option name=foo
style="color:blue">foo</option><option name=bar
style="color:green">bar</option></select>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a website with a select field that has a different color for each option
2. Change the selected option
3.

Actual Results:  
color stays as the same as the defined color for the select field (if this is
left blank then the color will always stay black or the color of the default
selected option)

Expected Results:  
should update color to match newly selected option

This is fairly trivial, and I was able to work around it by including javascript
to update the colors, but since it works correctly in IE without additional
script I thought that I would bring it to your attention.

Comment 1

[PikeUK]

Could you please attach a minimized testcase to illustrate the problem, thanks.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79107 ***