786713 - <font> tag within option element causes nothing to display in drop down menu.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 787412

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[acollier21]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Build ID: 20120824154833

Steps to reproduce:

Using Google Translate to translate the page, I selected the Spanish mode of the page.


Actual results:

The drop down menu options disappeared. It appears that Firefox is having troubles rendering <font> tags when placed inside options. Chrome 20, IE7-8, and Safari 5 all handled it correctly. Here is an example. 

https://rbmservices.applicantpro.com/account/

Go to the country/state menus. The state drop down is pulled through AJAX and you can briefly see the option items before Google Translate gets to it and adds the <font> tags.


Expected results:

The option items should be visible even with <font> tags.

Comment 1

[acollier21]

I realize this could get fuzzy, but it is the actual text of the option item. The option items themselves are visible, but the option text is *blank*

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

I fail to reproduce (at least on Windows 7).
Can you give more detailed Steps please?
Or can you confirm that this is a non-Windows Issue?

Comment 3

[acollier21]

Attachment: The english site before translation (notice the drop down text appears)

Comment 4

[acollier21]

Attachment: Translated into spanish..... text disappears.

Comment 5

[acollier21]

Attachment: Drop down menu still has items

Comment 6

[acollier21]

Attachment: Right now Nueva York should be selected (and is selected in the DOM) but it isn't shown to the user

Comment 7

[acollier21]

I loaded up VMFusion and the problem still occured on Firefox 11, Firefox 13.0.1, and Firefox 15 (it was on 11, and updated a couple of times). It was using WindowsXP. The steps I used to reproduce it were going to the link provided, and then towards the top right corner there's a "Select Language" button. I choose Spanish and then below the "Returning User" box there are several drop downs with a bunch of countries and states. Before you change the language, these drop downs populate just fine. After you choose them (and Google Translate inserts the <font> tags) the items are still selectable, but show up completely blank. See all my attachments.

Comment 8

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Yep, now I see this too. Missed the Part about using the provided Google Translation Service for Spanish in the top Right ;-)

Reproducible in Trunk/Windows 7 anyways.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Minimalish testcase would sure be nice.