161372 - Implement rendering of CSS background colors in form elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154894

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, enhancement)

Description

[Joe]

I noticed that in Chimera, some form elements are unable to render all of the
specified CSS properties.  Check out http://www.sanbeiji.com/tech/csstest/ to
see this visually. For the CSS, see http://www.sanbeiji.com/tech/csstest/csstest.css

Probably this is more of an Apple issue than a Chimera issue since Chimera uses
the native Mac OS X form elements.

Mozilla is the only browser I've used so far that renders this stuff exaclty
right - mostly due to the fact that it uses it's own form element designs. 
OmniWeb and Chimera don't do too well due to the native Mac OS X elements, and
MSIE 5.2 Mac gets it almost right but misses the point on things like radio
buttons and list items in drop down menus.

The specific elements I noticed that don't render on Chimera include background
color on multi-line text boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, drop-down menus,
multi-line menus, and submit/reset buttons.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Mozilla is the only browser I've used so far that renders this stuff exaclty
> right

There is no right or wrong here...  Form controls are not expressible via the
CSS2 box model, soany application of style to them is outside the scope of CSS2.

So Chimera's rendering is perfectly compliant with CSS2.

Comment 2

[Steve Smart]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154894 ***