327123 - title of checkbox not shown if checkbox is disabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 274626

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[per.walstrom]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

When a checkbox is disabled, the title is not shown. E.g.

<input type="checkbox" name="csqUmm" value="on" checked="checked" disabled="disabled" id="csqUmm204" title="Urgent Market Message">

Opera (8.51) and IE (6) show the title even if the checkbox is disabled


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use a form with a disabled checkbox
2. put a title to the checkbox
3. title is not shown when hovering over the checkbox

Actual Results:  
title is not shown when hovering over the checkbox

Expected Results:  
title should be shown when hovering over the checkbox

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Attachment: testcase from comment 0

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060213 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2006021314

Concur. With IE6.5 and Opera9tp2 a tooltip is shown when hovering over the disabled checkbox. With firefox it is not.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Probably a duplicate of bug 274626, which ought to be resummarized as "Disabled form controls..."