830608 - caret color not changed by 'color' property on input with placeholder attribute text in input tags

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Leo Monelli]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130104151925

Steps to reproduce:

When using CSS on an input field, the I-Beam does not take the color attribute until data is entered. On input fields with darker backgrounds the black can be difficult to see

<style>
input
{
    color:yellow;
}
</style>

<input placeholder="Black I-Beam">


Actual results:

Clicking the input field shows a black I-beam until text is inserted


Expected results:

I-beam should immediately be the specified yellow.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Attachment: testcase from comment #0

The text in this HTML is always yellow on white in Firefox 19.0b1 and 2013-01-15-03-09-36-mozilla-central-firefox-21.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Given that it's fixed on 19 (beta), I don't think there's anything else to do here.

Most likely fixed by bug 737786.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Bogdan, for future refernce "CSS Object Model" is for APIs exposing things like rules and stylesheets to the DOM.