595161 - Disabled XUL textbox doesn't display tooltiptext.

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

When you have a XUL textbox that is disabled="true" and tooltiptext="blah", the tooltip does not show.

It is important that tooltips show for disabled widgets so a reason for being disabled can be displayed.

I have confirmed this on a dialog in my extension.  I also played with DOM Inspector to change Firefox's location bar, which is a quick way to reproduce this.

This is in contrast to checkboxes (for example) when the tooltip displays.  There may be other XUL widgets that have this bug - I haven't checked.

Win7 FF 3.6.9 and 4.0beta5

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Attachment: sample xul

I can see tooltip when mouse over border of disabled textbox.
But it is difficult than normal textbox.

Comment 2

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

A patch for this was provided in Bug 559176

Comment 3

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

A patch for this was provided in full in Bug 274626 because the XUL textbox is based on the html:input.  Do I need to make an XUL specific test case though?

Comment 4

[Neil Deakin]

Probably isn't too important. If you do, just add an extra bit to test_tooltip.xul (Note that bug 508710 moves the location of this test).