496347 - Selection does not render underline in standards mode

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Description

[Jeroen Pulles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042513 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042513 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.10

A webpage with (Firefox-) XSLT-generated content with underlined text "hides" the underline when you select the text. 

Reproducible: Always




This issue can be reproduced on MacOS X 10.5 PPC - Gecko/2009042315 - Firefox/3.0.10 as well.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 2

[Jeroen Pulles]

Still holds true on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Attachment: XSLT for testcase

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Testcase not involving XSLT

Happens with any standards-mode document, in fact.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

And I bet the reason it does is that the selection background paints after the text-decoration (which is painted by the _parent_ in standards mode), so that it just covers up the underline.  Sadly, the behavior of selections isn't really defined in the CSS spec; some readings of the ::selection stuff in fact require our behavior, as far as I can see.

Comment 7

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111025 Firefox/10.0a1

Comment 8

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 9

[Jan Jaeschke [:jjaschke]]

Attachment: image.png

I cannot repro this on Ubuntu (see attached screenshot).