221463 - Changing attribute doesn't redraw pseudoelement before/after correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214013

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[Daniel Kirsch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Changing attributes of an element using setAttribute() doesn't force a redraw,
when the element's content get's generated by CSS using the before/after pseudo
element:

.mw:before {
  content:"[mw:" attr(valueMen) "/" attr(valueWomen) "]";
}
	
Now when changing any attribute the element's content doesn't update correctly.
It usually just doesn't display anything or shows the old value. Actually the
size of the element doesn't update to the new size of the content. When hiding
the element and showing it again, it will be drawn correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See example page


Expected Results:  
The pseudoelement's content should be updated as soon as an used attribute changes

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214013 ***