497442 - Setting color attribute of <colorpicker type="button"> does not change color

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[domenico.lento]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4

there is a problem in initializing the colorpicker type=button element by using javascript


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.document.getElementById("colorpicker").setAttribute('color',"#000000");
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Actual Results:  
the colopicker does not initialize correctly; the result is a totally grey button

Expected Results:  
after the excution of the above mentioned code, the colorpicker element has to show a blank (#000000) rectangle inside the grey button

to solve the problem, I use this javascript code:
var cp = document.getElementById("colorpicker");
cp.color = "#000000";

Comment 1

[Michael Ryan]

Confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090609 Shiretoko/3.5pre. Seems to only happen if setting the attribute after the element is appended. Testcase coming...

Comment 2

[Michael Ryan]

Attachment: Testcase

Expected: All should be red.
Actual: The second box is not red.