244413 - Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings \ Server Settings\Checkboxes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[casualprogrammer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520

The checkboxes are activated / deactivated not only by clicking the checkbox
itself, but rather by clicking the descriptive text as well. As this might be
acceptable, the activating area for the descriptive text extends to the end of
the "Server Settings" box, thus causing unwanted changes in the settings if
accidental clicking in no mans land occurs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click on mail account and select "properties"
2. Select "Server Settings"
3. Click in the blank area behind "Use secure connection (SSL)", "Use secure
authentication" or "Check for new messages at startup"
Actual Results:  
The checkboxes change state

Expected Results:  
The checkboxes not to change state, unless checkbox itself or actual text is
clicked.

The correct behaviour is implemented for "Automatically download new messages"
and "Leave messages on server"

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

Couldn't find a dupe.
Can reproduce this with Thunderbird nightly 20040515 on Win2k.

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Attachment: Fix

Adding align="start" to the vbox that surrounds these checkboxes fixes the bug.

Comment 3

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Attachment: Fixes all occurrences of this problem in MailNews

Actually this problem exists in some more places. The attached patch fixes all
of them in MailNews. I'd file follow-up bugs about the problem in other parts
of Mozilla/FF/TB, if this is the right fix.

A way to fix this globally in one central place would certainly be better, but
I couldn't find one.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 149157 [details] [diff] [review]
Fixes all occurrences of this problem in MailNews

Radiobuttons have it easy - radiogroups have the global -moz-box-align: start;
style in xul.css but I can't see a better way to fix checkboxes.

Comment 5

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Comment on attachment 149157 [details] [diff] [review]
Fixes all occurrences of this problem in MailNews

Ok, thanks Neil! Lets ask Scott for sr then.

Comment 6

[Stefan Borggraefe]

That was a fast sr. :-) Fix checked in.