295641 - Gecko seems to ignore :active under certain circumstances

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[lightsolphoenix]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

When I was going through the IE7 suite with Firefox, I noticed that the :active
demo doesn't work.  I was under the impression that :active should work on
everything in HTML.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click the link
2.Click on the text field, this SHOULD cause the field to inherit the :active styles

Actual Results:  
The input field does not turn yellow like the styles say it should.  I also
tested this with other browsers, and only Gecko doesn't do it.

Expected Results:  
The input should have turned yellow, because that's what the :active style says.

Default theme.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

Clicking repeatedly in the text-box, elsewhere on the page, back in the text
box, etc. got the yellow background to show occasionally.  So I think the
styling is working.  Win2000 Moz 1.7.8

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524

the input field turns yellow as long as left mousekey is pressed, same as in Opera8.

Comment 3

[lightsolphoenix]

(In reply to comment #2)
> wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524
> 
> the input field turns yellow as long as left mousekey is pressed, same as in
Opera8.

Not when I do it in Firefox (v 1.0.3).  The input field never turns yellow, no
matter how many times I click.

Comment 4

[Josh Birnbaum]

lightsolphoenix: Can you try with a recent Firefox nightly or Mozilla version? 
Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7 are relatively old code.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

yes, gecko 1.7.x doesn't work here, but gecko 1.7.8 is only receiving security
fixes.  this works fine on trunk (linux build 2005052505).

resolving WORKSFORME

Comment 6

[lightsolphoenix]

(In reply to comment #5)
> yes, gecko 1.7.x doesn't work here, but gecko 1.7.8 is only receiving security
> fixes.  this works fine on trunk (linux build 2005052505).
> 
> resolving WORKSFORME

Yep, I tested it with the nightly, and the bug goes away.  Guess it was just a
bug in 1.7.x.

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Duplicate of bug 65917, really.