30551 - CSS :active pseudo-class does nothing in forms

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35246

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[bnb]

My reading of the HTML4.0 standard says that the form in 
http://www.looking-glass.org/gallery/ should show an selected element as red
text with a white background.

The CSS request within this page is...

<Style type="text/css">
  BODY { background: black;
         color: white
  }
  FORM   { border: 0px red;margin: 0px 0px }
  SELECT { background: black; color: white; border-color: red } 
  OPTION { background: black; color: white; border-color: red } 
  FORM:active   { background: white; color: red }
  SELECT:active { background: white; color: red } 
  OPTION:active { background: white; color: red }
  .right        { text-align: right; color: white }
</Style>

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - are you still seeing this problem on recent builds of 
Mozilla?

Gerv

Comment 2

[Nicholas Cull]

Hmmm... Anyone out there have a good definition about what the :focus and
:active pseudo-classes should mean for options in a select box? The :active one
seems to be hooked up, but not what the author intended here. On the other hand,
if :active is hooked up for an option element, then :focus should be as well.
Currently, only :active is hooked up.

Any takers?

Comment 3

[Nicholas Cull]

FYI, section 5.11.3 of the CSS2 spec seems to be the clearest definition of
these terms that I can find.

Comment 4

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

See bug 35246.  This is probably a duplicate, at least in part, but perhaps that
bug should be reopened.

Comment 5

[rickg]

Rod: please comment and/or triage.

Comment 6

[rods (gone)]

dupping bug as suggested by david, which I agree with his point.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35246 ***

Comment 7

[Matt Perry]

Verified duplicate.

Comment 8

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.