49922 - [CBX]elect element does not repaint when losing focus

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

There is the following rule in html.css:

   /* temporary rule to make repaint happen on loss of focus */
   select:focus, select[size="1"]:focus {
     background-color: #FEFEFE;
   }

The problem is that without this rule, the magic focus rectangle that the
select element aquires during, ah, focus, doesn't dissapear when you remove
the focus from the select element.

This is blocking bug 1021, which is part of my work on html.css. To fix that
bug, I am setting the background-color of select elements to 'Window'. Since
I don't know what that is, I cannot then set the background-color of 
select:focus to a similar color, the way that at the moment we set the focused
color to a very slightly shaded version of white.

Of course, if there is some other hacky way of forcing a repaint, that doesn't
involve changing colours, I'm listening...

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

I guess there is no CSS color for focus, is there?

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Good idea. Ok, I've worked around this by making the combobox frame get the
Highlight and HighlightText colours. This actually seems to be what happens
with native Windows widgets anyway! Woohoo!

Comment 3

[bsharma]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

This is now invlaid because of how we have changed the way the focus rect works 
(I think)