826006 - CSS text-shadow on ::-moz-selection not applied when losing focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 706209

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Cacycle]

Attachment: Testcase selection text-shadow

After the fixes of bug 721750, the text-shadow property is now correctly applied to selections in Firefox 17.0.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0).

However, as soon as the selection containing object becomes unfocused (i.e. a blue selection turns grey), the text-shadow property no longer applied to the selection.

This behavior feels wrong and has probably been missed in the patches (unless I miss some sophisticated CSS magic here). 

To replicate, open the first testcase, select some text (the shadow disappears). Then click into the address bar to remove the focus (shadow re-appears in the unfocused selection).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Why is this marked "regression"?

Before bug 721750 this didn't work at all.

Now it works for ::-moz-selection (fixed in bug 721750), but unfocused selections don't actually match ::-moz-selection (see bug 706209), so no ::-moz-selection styles are ever applied to them (you can see the same thing with color, background, etc, not just text-shadow).