145131 - Radio Buttons cannot be used on pages with black backgrounds

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 79719

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Marc Attinasi]

I went to the netscape page to cast my vote for Ross and Rachel to get married,
Alex said I should be sure to vote on this important issue, but I cannot use the
voting form because I cannot tell which radio button is checked!

I looked with IE and they use white backgrounds for their radio buttons, so I
can tell (at least I was able to cast my important vote using IE).

Please fix this so I can use Mozilla to vote when they have a poll for which is
better, Simpsons or South Park...

Comment 1

[Marc Attinasi]

Maybe John can help fix this critical bug...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So.. the problem is not the _page_ background.  The problem is the following
style rule:

.pollbg { background-color: black }

The radio buttons are <input class="pollbg" type="radio">.  The site has just
commited the cardinal sin of web design -- setting a background color on
something and not setting to foreground color.

I suppose we could completely disable the application of background styles to
radio buttons....but then we need to disable the setting of foreground color as
well...

What does IE do?  How does it render:

<input type="radio" style="color: red; background: yellow">

?

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

people have tried complaining about this (very real) problem before:
bug 57429, bug 69434, bug 79719 has some info.

Comment 4

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79719 ***

Comment 5

[Chris Waterson]

So, should Rachel and Ross get married?

Comment 6

[Alexandru Savulov]

Dude,... see, i cannot tell yet... man i thought about this day and night, is
like an obsession... helpwanted.

Comment 7

[Terri Preston]

I really think they should!  anyway, verified duplicate