My reading of the HTML4.0 standard says that the form in http://www.looking-glass.org/gallery/ should show an selected element as red text with a white background. The CSS request within this page is... <Style type="text/css"> BODY { background: black; color: white } FORM { border: 0px red;margin: 0px 0px } SELECT { background: black; color: white; border-color: red } OPTION { background: black; color: white; border-color: red } FORM:active { background: white; color: red } SELECT:active { background: white; color: red } OPTION:active { background: white; color: red } .right { text-align: right; color: white } </Style>

bnb@looking-glass.org - are you still seeing this problem on recent builds of Mozilla? Gerv

Hmmm... Anyone out there have a good definition about what the :focus and :active pseudo-classes should mean for options in a select box? The :active one seems to be hooked up, but not what the author intended here. On the other hand, if :active is hooked up for an option element, then :focus should be as well. Currently, only :active is hooked up. Any takers?

FYI, section 5.11.3 of the CSS2 spec seems to be the clearest definition of these terms that I can find.

See bug 35246. This is probably a duplicate, at least in part, but perhaps that bug should be reopened.

Rod: please comment and/or triage.

dupping bug as suggested by david, which I agree with his point. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35246 ***

Verified duplicate.

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug 88132 for details.