541311 - ::-moz-selection reverts to default colours when window loses focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 706209

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Ryan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Using the ::-moz-selection pseudo-element will revert background-color & text color to browser default when the window loses focus, tested in Firefox 1.5+ other browser that support ::selection don't have this issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open website that has ::-moz-selection implemented (thecssninja.com)
2. Select some text, should have green background with white text
3. Click on another window in your OS.
Actual Results:  
Custom selection styles will revert to browser default styling.

Expected Results:  
Kept custom styles and not reverted to browser default.

Here's a screen grab showing text highlight when window has focus and when it's lost focus http://twitpic.com/z5oqm

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Bug 176170 (with Hixies testcases exposing focus issues too) related?

Comment 2

[Aaron Simmons]

You can confirm this easily with this jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/paleozogt/yVjfu/

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dupping forward to bug with a lot more information.