68195 - Document.bgColor property isn't functioning in XHTML

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 111514

(Core :: XML, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Petersen]

Build: 2001020804
Platform: All
Expected results: Modifing document.bgColor property should function.
What I got: This property is not working.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open test case

2) Clicking on any of the buttons should change the document's background color.

3) Background color is not changed.

Comment 1

[Chris Petersen]

Adding xhtml keyword

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Nominating for nsbeta1. Document properties such as bgcolor should function in 
XHTML.

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I disagree, changing document's background color via script isn't a beta
stopper. You can set the backround color with CSS and attributes on the body
element.

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 4

[Henrik Gemal]

Actually setting the bgcolor in a normal html doesn't seem to work either..
http://gemal.dk/util/bgcolor.html

Comment 5

[david]

This doesn't seem like an XML or XHTML bug to me.  I doesn't work in normal HTML
documents either.  I think it ought to be re-categorized as a DOM0 bug.

And it ought to be fixed.  This bug breaks any web site that does cheesy
background color animations (fade to black...)

And, for what its worth, it breaks an example in my book JavaScript:The
Definitive Guide.  There are hundreds of thousands of javascripters out there
who may try to run the example with Mozilla!

Comment 6

[Chris Petersen]

This works in a HTML Transitional 4.0 document:

http://mozilla.org/quality/browser/standards/html/script_src.html 

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

David, 

You might try pulling a newer build since it works for me with HTML files (June
28th). This may have accidentally got broken then got fixed. This particular bug
is a XHTML issue only.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

XHTML as xml gets an XML document instead of an HTML one, hence no bgcolor property.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111514 ***

Comment 9

[Marcus Campbell]

Verified.