260907 - radio buttons in forms ignor the background-color style attribute

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183247

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Mark Pearson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.9.3

Using the example code from
http://faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/2015/fid/311 which displays a
page with 3 radio buttons which should initially be green and change to red when
selected.
The color is always white using firefox 0.9.3 on linux and mozilla 1.7.2 on windows.
The correct colors are displayed when using konqueror 3.3 and quanta on linux or  
explorer 5.5 on windows

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the page from http://faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/2015/fid/311
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
All 3 buttons appear with a white background
No color changes occur when a button is selected

Expected Results:  
The buttons should initially appear green.
The selected button should change from green to red

Comment 1

[Mark Pearson]

Attachment: radio button test code from FAQTs

This is the code contained in the link
http://faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/2015/fid/311

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is quite intentional, actually.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183247 ***