323052 - A non empty BODY element triggers the *:empty CSS selector

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P1)

Description

[Simon Proctor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

While testing the CSS 3 selectors I tried the :empty selector only to find it had matched the body of the page. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a page with content. And use :empty as a selector. 

Actual Results:  
The BODY element was selected by the selector, (checking in the DOM inspector showed it was the BODY element and not the HEAD or HTML ones).

Expected Results:  
The BOSY element should not be matched unless it is empty.

Comment 1

[Simon Proctor]

Attachment: Test Case

Source of test page.

Comment 2

[Simon Proctor]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Just tested. Same effect.

Comment 3

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

Same here:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060110 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Ryan Jones

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98997 ***

Comment 5

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

*** Bug 188953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

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

I'm going to reopen this so people find it in searches since it's not obviously dynamic.

Comment 7

[Mats Lindblad]

This may not be a bug but it seems that it's more of an unfortunate side-effect; When you use :empty it get applied to emtpy tags/elements like <input/> which may not be what you want since they may have a value and shouldn't be affected.

Empty should meen "no value" right?

To me it's faulty behavior. But that's just me ... ;)

Comment 8

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

Whatever it is (please check the spec), it doesn't belong in this bug report.

Comment 9

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

Fixed by checkin of bug 401291, which fixed bug 98997, at 2008-02-18 22:17 -0800.