337004 - style definitions in select and option appear to be interpreted backwards

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[scratch65536]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

Intuitively, setting font-size in the <select>'s style tag (class seems not to be being interpreted at all--see bug 337001) should size the <select>'s window, while setting font-size in the <option>'s style tag should size the font being displayed.  But it currently works exactly the other way around:  setting fontsize in <option> sizes the window; setting it in <select> sizes the displayed font, though poorly (I'll report that elsewhere).

I've not tried to see whether other characteristics are similarly backwards.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a <select> list and apply dissimilar style="font-size:..." to the <select> and its <option>s. 
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Actual Results:  
I became momentarily quite confused :-)


I only have the default theme loaded.

Comment 1

[scratch65536]

It turns out to be a bit more complicated than I thought, though not more intuitive.  

Setting the fontsize in the <select> modifies the font as shown in the <select>'s window, but not the size of the <select>'s window itself nor the font size shown in the list's window.  

Setting the fontsize in the <option> modifies the window size, and the size shown in the open list's window, but not the size shown in the <select>'s window.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter re: comment 2 -->INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem with the latest release of Firefox 2, please reopen this bug. Thanks!