62607 - cssText field of CSSRule is incomplete

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[David Flanagan]

If you look at the cssText field of a CSSRule object, you get a string like
"font-family: sanserif;"--a string that only contains the style description,
but not the selectors.  I'm pretty sure that the DOM standard intends for
this property to return the entire contents of the rule, something like "P {
font-family: sanserif;}"

It looks to me like CSSRule.cssText is returning what
CSSStyleDeclaration.cssText ought to return.

Comment 1

[David Flanagan]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[David Flanagan]

See also bug #62611, bug #62612, bug#62613

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer
workingon 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 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Adding dependency to 52381

Comment 5

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Proposing trivial patch for missing curly braces around the declaration.

According to DOM2, CSSDeclaration.cssText is "the parsable representation of the
declaration block (excluding the surrounding curly braces)." and
CSSStyleRule.cssText is "the parsable representation of the rule".
Then David's interpretation is correct, all the rule should be replied,
including selectors and the rest.

Comment 6

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Attachment: patch for 62607

Comment 7

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Accepting bug. Proposing new patch because the output of curly braces must be
done even if there is no declaration. r= needed.

BTW, it seems that the parser does not store a rule with no declarations like "P
{ }"... I guess it is for performance reasons but should such a rule be
accessible by DOM 2 CSS ?

Comment 8

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Attachment: new patch for 62607

Comment 9

[Kathleen :Brade]

r=brade

Comment 10

[Marc Attinasi]

sr=attinasi

Comment 11

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

checked in

Comment 12

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

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

Comment 13

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

v based on test case