185708 - Threedface colour does not render in input boxes on Windows

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Dash]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216

Applying the colour #D4D0C8 to a text input box as background-color produces a
white background colour.  Yet using other colours extremely close, e.g. #D4D0C9
render the correct colour.

It does not apply to other elements such as <div>'s.  They render the colour
correctly.  This is a very strange bug and seemed to have appeared around the
12th December 2002.  I am unable to put a precise date on it.  But I noticed it
about a week ago.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an <input type="text" style="background-color: #D4D0C8">
2. View in Mozilla.
3. Cry.

Actual Results:  
background-colour fails to render and renders as white.

Expected Results:  
background-colour should render the specified hex rgb colour.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I can confirm and reproduce this bug on Win2K 20021216. I am sure that the bug
did  not happen on the December 1st build (20021201). The URL given is pretty
much a reduced testcase.

This is a weird bug.

This bug might be related to bug 181490.

-M

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

is this a problem only on Windows or on other platforms as well?

Comment 3

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

WFM WinXP 2002121308.  Will try a 12/16 build.

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

WFM. 2002121608 / XP.  (May be 2000 only?)

Comment 5

[Andreas Kunz]

I can NOT reproduce this bug with 2002121608 on Win 2000.
All boxes have about the same shade of grey (and it looks identical to IE5).

Comment 6

[Sébastien Desvignes]

I can reproduce this with build 2002121704 Win2k.
I have noticed that colour #D4D0C8 is the default colour for 3D elements in the
Appearance settings. If you change the colour for 3D elements to #ff0000 for
example, then the bug affect colour #ff0000.

Comment 7

[Andreas Kunz]

Ah, nice catch, Sébastien!
That's probably the reason why I don't see this bug: I have my own different
color theme (light brown, not gray colors).

Comment 8

[Andreas Kunz]

I just tried with standard Windows colors: now I also see this bug.
(How can you all live in such a gray world??)

Comment 9

[Tim Hill]

Taking, I know the fix for this.  This will happen for whatever your threedface 
color is set to in Windows, which is usually #D4D0C8 under the classic theme.  
It should affect XP with Luna themes as well.

Comment 10

[Tim Hill]

.

Comment 11

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Bug 184359 appears to have fixed this one (tested on Mozilla version 
2003013108, Windows XP). 

Reason:
Tested http://www.aligrant.com/tmp/moz/styles.html with 2003010508 and 
reproduced. Today's version appears fixed.


Under Luna Theme (default, Blue), the color is: #ECE9D8, and that is chosen in 
Control Panel > Display Settings > Appearance > Advanced > "3d Objects"
Its easier, imho, to just set it to classic theme in the appearance box on 
Windows XP to try this out. 

Andreas:  I like Luna, but maybe these people are "zetas" ;-) 
http://www.crystalinks.com/grayeyes2.jpg :-)
There is much diversity in the universe, and the earth is a good example of 
that (and of beings that have trouble accepting diversity). One person's trash 
is another's treasure. One person's nasty grey color is another's beautiful 
grey color... bleh! ;-) 

I gave you a filter string for email=bazookacarryingmonkeys

Comment 12

[Dash]

Confirmed fixed. Works for me :)

Comment 13

[Olivier Cahagne]

.

Comment 14

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Did you really mean to reopen?  Or to verify?  In either case, a nice comment
explaining things is appropriate...

Comment 15

[Olivier Cahagne]

sorry for the spam, I didn't see the dependency on bug 184359.

Comment 16

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Yes, I was going to complain about that, but see that bz already has things covered.