109120 - Border of select's (pulldowns) always show beveled, even if overridden using !important

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 106317

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Jesse Houwing]

There was a bug that set !important to all bevels of selects because a site
didn't show it's pulldowns because their style was fucked up. I can't find it
right now, but I'll keep looking.

Now with the checkin of bug 43220 an author can't even override the bevel style
using !important.

I'll look for the bugnumber, but thought I'd report it here anyhow as it's a
regression.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011106

Comment 1

[Jesse Houwing]

They disabled select styling because of one site that since then changed their
layout.

Now there is a discussion in bug 94387 and bug 106317.

But since the check-in of bug 43220 an author can't even override this by adding
!important to their own stylesheet (which used to work as a workaround for bug
106317).

Comment 2

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

This need not be considered a bug -- the CSS spec doesn't describe a model for
the rendering of form controls so any application of CSS to form controls is an
extension of CSS.  However, assigning to HTML Form Controls.

Comment 3

[Jesse Houwing]

It is a bug in the fact that Mozilla used to support this right up from early
on, but that this support has stopped recently. I (and more people with me) have
made certain designs that benifit from this feature, so now that it isn't
working anymore *that* is a bug for me :(

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Let's try to limit the number of bugs we have on this issue, OK?  :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106317 ***

Comment 5

[Jesse Houwing]

This bug is new in the fact that !important overrides by the author now also
stopped working.