311039 - css for selection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176170

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Hungerburg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

when styling the selection an error message is printed to the js console "Error:
Expected pseudo-element but found 'selection'.  Ruleset ignored due to bad
selector. Source File: http://www.kunstnetztirol.at/jss/table-all.css
Line: 33" - while the rule still applies.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://www.kunstnetztirol.at/knt/
2. read css error in js console
3. select text and see the style applied

Actual Results:  
actual results are ok.

Expected Results:  
no error printed

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css3-selectors-20011113/#UIfragments

Comment 1

[Hungerburg]

oops, possibly, the style still applies because of the preceding
"-moz-selection" selector in the style sheet...

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

It's ignored because it's so far only impelemented as -moz-selection. That one
works. Just selection not yet.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65133 ***

Comment 4

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176170 ***