209228 - the background color of a groupbox caption in a tab is wrong (classic theam)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236107

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Mark Kaplun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

The classic theam is using a constant color (dialog color) as the background
color of a groupbox caption. This works realy fine when the groupbox is located
in a dialog window, but when it is placed inside a tab which have a different
background color, the gray background color is wrong.

Selecting a different color as the background does not help, since the tab uses
some kind of white gradient (hope I use the right term) as background, which
means that it is not the same white at every place of the window.

Removing the background color definition from the CSS, makes the groupbox border
to be showen behind the caption text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached xul file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The groupbox caption has a gray background.

Expected Results:  
No background should be shown for the caption

Comment 1

[Mark Kaplun]

Attachment: Test xul file

Comment 2

[Mark Kaplun]

*** Bug 209229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[sean echevarria]

maybe related to bug 185435

Comment 4

[Mark Kaplun]

Don't think so. IMHO the problem here is that the line of the groupbox is 
always drawen behind the caption, therefor you have to apply some kind of 
background color to the caption in order to hide the relevent portion of the 
line. 

IMHO the best solution is to draw calculate the amount of space required for 
the caption and draw the line only outside of this space, and then the 
backgound color definition for the caption can be removed.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Laeb]

Attachment: Shows the caption bug

This bug is still unfixed in FF beta 2 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1).

Comment 7

[Biju]

this is dup of bug 236107

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236107 ***