Closed Bug 323052 Opened 19 years ago Closed 16 years ago

A non empty BODY element triggers the *:empty CSS selector

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(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P1)

1.8 Branch
defect

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RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla1.9beta4

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(Reporter: simon.proctor, Assigned: dbaron)

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Details

(Keywords: testcase)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

While testing the CSS 3 selectors I tried the :empty selector only to find it had matched the body of the page. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a page with content. And use :empty as a selector. 

Actual Results:  
The BODY element was selected by the selector, (checking in the DOM inspector showed it was the BODY element and not the HEAD or HTML ones).

Expected Results:  
The BOSY element should not be matched unless it is empty.
Attached file Test Case
Source of test page.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Just tested. Same effect.
Same here:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060110 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Ryan Jones
Assignee: nobody → dbaron
Component: General → Style System (CSS)
Keywords: testcase
OS: Windows XP → All
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → ian
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → 1.8 Branch

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98997 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
*** Bug 188953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm going to reopen this so people find it in searches since it's not obviously dynamic.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Depends on: 98997
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P1
This may not be a bug but it seems that it's more of an unfortunate side-effect; When you use :empty it get applied to emtpy tags/elements like <input/> which may not be what you want since they may have a value and shouldn't be affected.

Empty should meen "no value" right?

To me it's faulty behavior. But that's just me ... ;)
Whatever it is (please check the spec), it doesn't belong in this bug report.
QA Contact: ian → style-system
Fixed by checkin of bug 401291, which fixed bug 98997, at 2008-02-18 22:17 -0800.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.9beta4
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