60480 - <DIV ONMOUSEOVER="this.innerHTML = ..." ONMOUSEOUT="this.innerHTML = ..." not working properly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6316

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect, P3)

Description

[Martin Honnen]

The following sets the innerHTML of the DIV during mouseover and tries to reset
it during mouseout. As long as you mouseover/mouseout only the background all
works correct, but when you try to mouseover the text and out again the text is
not restored and the display flickers when you mouseover the text again.

<div id="aDiv" STYLE="background-color: orange;"
     onmouseover="this.innerHTML = 'touched me !';"
     onmouseout="this.innerHTML = 'touch me !';"
>
touch me !
</div>

Note: I file that on DOM level 1. I know innerHTML is not part of DOM but I
think the same people working on DOM in mozilla also implemented innerHMTL for it.

Here is also a workaround which doesn't use innerHTML and which doesn't have the
problem.

<div id="a2ndDiv" STYLE="background-color: orange;"
     onmouseover="this.firstChild.nodeValue = 'touched me !'"
     onmouseout="this.firstChild.nodeValue = 'touch me !'"
>
touch me !
</div>

Comment 1

[Martin Honnen]

Attachment: bug demo (mouseover/mouseout the text of the first div and it is not restored properly)

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Reassigning to joki

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

dup of bug 40259?
Fabian.

Comment 4

[joki (gone)]

This is likely due to mouseover/mouseout state not being maintained correctly 
when the node under the mouse is being destroyed and replaced.  Marking future 
for now.

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer
working on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or
another known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work
in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Taking QA Contact on all open or unverified DOM Style bugs...

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 6316 by way of bug 40249.  (Note: another bug with a similar bug 
number, bug 40259, was mentioned earlier in this bug.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6316 ***

Comment 7

[Fabian Guisset]

VERIFIED dup