1246727 - "-moz-appearance: button" doesn't hide a <select>'s downarrow button, on Android

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Widget: Android, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: testcase 1

STR:
 1. Load attached testcase in Firefox on Android.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
No downarrow on the button.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
There is a downarrow on the button.

Some sites use "-moz-appearance: button" as a way of hiding the downarrow on a <select> element, so that they can provide their own downarrow via a background.

But this doesn't seem to work in Firefox on Android -- the downarrow still shows up.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I get EXPECTED RESULTS (no downarrow) from this variety of mobile & desktop browsers/OSes:
 - Firefox release (44) & nightly (47) on desktop Linux
 - Chrome 50 dev edition on Linux
 - Edge 13 on desktop Win10
 - Chrome 48 on Android
 - Safari 9 on iPhone 6s Plus

I've only seen ACTUAL RESULTS on the following OSes:
 - Firefox release (44) & nightly (47) on Android
 - IE 11 on desktop Win10 [which isn't relevant to the web going forward, now that Edge exists]

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Daniel, 
is it the same than Bug 1246836.
It looks very similar.

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Similar, but not the same. (Though you & I filed them on the same day, for different aspects of the same webcompat report I think.)

 - The issue here (described in comment 0) is about the downarrow being shown vs. hidden, on <select>s styled as buttons.  Note that this already works correctly with the "native look&feel widgets" on Linux, per comment 1, but not on other platforms.

 - The issue in Bug 1246836 is about how "background" is honored, on <select>s styled as buttons.  (This is broken on all platforms. Note that setting "background" disables the native look, so Linux goes back to drawing the downarrow in that bug's testcases.)

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Migrating Webcompat whiteboard priorities to project flags. See bug 1547409.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

See bug 1547409. Migrating whiteboard priority tags to program flags.

Comment 6

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

This seems fixed now (in both Fenix and Fennec) -- can you verify Daniel?

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Yup, looks fixed to me (Fenix & Fennec on my Pixel 3).

Comment 8

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Marking "VERIFIED" based on comment 6.