53590 - [MF][FIX html.css]select drop down box border color problem

Status: REOPENED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[James Lariviere]

DESCRIPTION:

select drop down box does not inherit the border color from the select element.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

view test case.

ACTUAL RESULTS:

Select drop down border renders with the default mozilla rendering border colors.

EXPECTED RESULTS:

Select drop down border should at the very least render with the html page
defined css select border color but ideally should render with the :focus
defined color.


DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY ON:

Win98 build 2000091820 (9-18-00)

Comment 1

[James Lariviere]

Attachment: testcase - select drop down border color problem

Comment 2

[Joseph Elwell]

This is nearly identical to bug 39992.

Comment 3

[rods (gone)]

even putting border-color:inherit; in :-moz-dropdown-list rule doesn't help

Comment 4

[James Lariviere]

hey rod,

I changed:

:-moz-dropdown-list {
  background-color: inherit;
  border: 1px outset ThreeDFace;
  border-top-style: none;
  z-index: 2147483647;
  -moz-user-select: none;

to:

:-moz-dropdown-list {
  background-color: inherit;
  color: inherit;
  border-style: inherit;
  border-color: inherit;
  border-width: inherit;
  z-index: 2147483647;
  -moz-user-select: none;
}

and it works fine for win98 build 2000092420 in this test case and looks better
in the default rendering than what is existing.

Comment 5

[rods (gone)]

Cool, that works! Thanks.

Comment 6

[bsharma]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 7

[James Lariviere]

hey rod,

what's the ETA for this to show up in the nightly's?

Comment 8

[rods (gone)]

I could nomiate it for nsbeta3 or rtm, but it won't be considered bad enough to 
get fixed, even though it is a simple fix.

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Change
  border-style: inherit;
  border-color: inherit;
  border-width: inherit;
...to
  border: inherit;
...if this is checked in.

Note that after release this will be moot once we change to XBL widgets.
I'm not sure we want this change; with inset borders (the result of the
change) the select drop downs look IMHO uglier than they are now. There is
no particular standards issue here at the moment, in CSS3 however there
will be a ::menu pseudo-class you can style, which will make all this moot 
as well...

I recommend WONTFIX. ;-)

Comment 10

[James Lariviere]

Ian,

The problem currently is that the select drop down does not match the styling of
the select element for normal or :focus (except color & background-color).

I think it is reasonable to expect that if you set a blue border-color for the
select, it's drop down box should have a blue border-color.

IMHO, I personally like the inset look of the drop down box so that it matches
the other form controls.  The 1px solid black drop down of IE and nav4 looks
really odd and out of place.

I suggest if you don't want to change this styling problem... that you should
not inherit the color or background-color from the select element because it
looks like the select element only "selectively" supports styling (kinda like MS
does).  Again IMHO.

Comment 11

[rods (gone)]

It would be fine to inherit any of the colors, but not border-style or 
border-width. Altering those make the combo resize differently.

Comment 12

[James Lariviere]

adding mozilla0.9 to keywords because this would be a minor change:

  color: inherit;
  border-color: inherit;

Comment 13

[rods (gone)]

putting up on my radar

Comment 14

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Setting milestone to future.

Comment 15

[Vladimir Ermakov]

QA Contact Update

Comment 16

[John Rutherford]

Will this bug ever get fixed??? 

Comment 17

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I believe this has been fixed already somewhere in the 1.7 cycle.
The testcase doesn't work in Mozilla1.7a (no changing border-colors for the
select element), but it does work in Mozilla1.7RC2.

Comment 18

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Well, I could not see the problem anyhow (with the testcase), but I think this
is now certainly fixed by the fix for bug 244370.

Comment 19

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Bug 244370 did not fix the dropdown *menu* (intentionally), which is what this
bug seems to be about (see comment 4).

Comment 20

[Anne (:annevk)]

WORKSFORME.

Comment 21

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase 2

The problem still occurs - the border color of the dropdown menu is black.