734865 - Dim the highlighter selection if the node is "covered" (z-index) by another node

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[sys.sgx]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120311 Firefox/13.0a1
Build ID: 20120311031030

Steps to reproduce:

Visit:  http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html

* Roller: when you roll with your mouse roller inside the screen :)
* Top bar: visit this page, http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html, the top bar is the css fixed bar that is at the top always.

- if there are no css fixed elements in the page, everything is fine. The element is highlighted and viewable as expected inside the browser area.

- But if there are css fixed elements in the page, like the top bar in the url specified, then when you try to roll inside the page, at some point our highlighted element will come below the fixed element. The thing is, that fixed element which is above now the highlighted element keeps having the bright focus, and it appears as if our highlighted element is the fixed bar.

If you inspect the span12 element in the url provided, and then roll up in the page, at some point the span12 will have the top bar above it, as in the image included here. Now, there should be a way to tell that our focused element exists somewhere there and it not this fixed bar you see. Perhaps this could be done with different coloring.



Expected results:

Message following from Paul:
I see. When an element is above the selected element, we should keep the dashed borders, but the selection should be dimmed.

Or even the dashed borders should have a different hue.

Comment 1

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

This is now an invalid bug. Too many things have changed in the inspector since then.