From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 BuildID: 20022061104 Even though the styles/classes of OPTION tags are rendered in the drop down list, they are not rendered in the Text of an un-expanded SELECT box (although the select box does appear to be sized as if it has taken the styles/classes of the elements into account, just not applied correctly to the text). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try the page at http://xo.dubplates.org/~xo/cssbug1.html. I have reproduced enough information to replicate the bug here: <style> .button { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; text-transform: none; color: #000088; text-decoration: none} </style> 1) <select class="button"> <option style="color: #880000">No</option> <option style="color: #000088">Maybe</option> <option style="color: #008800">Yes</option> </select> 2) <select> <option class="button" style="color: #880000">No</option> <option class="button" style="color: #000088">Maybe</option> <option class="button" style="color: #008800">Yes</option> </select> 3) <select> <option class="button" style="font-size: 9px">No</option> <option class="button" style="font-size: 18px">Maybe</option> <option class="button" style="font-size: 27px;">Yes</option> </select> Actual Results: Box 1 always has the color from the class button, even though the options are coloured differently; Box 2 is too small to hold the text inside it because the default text size is larger than 9px (also the default text is black). Box 3 is large enough to hold the largest element, but the text is still at the default size (and color). In all 3 cases, the drop down list *is* rendered correctly obeying classes and styles. Expected Results: For what i see in the drop down list to be reflected in the un-opened list box :)

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this also happens if you try to use "display: none" on the first element of a <select>. see: http://www.tufts.edu/~lbenne01/option_display.html

You shouldn't be styling selects or options, per the CSS spec it isn't specified yet. We shouldn't be allowing any styling of form controls...

... but that doesnt change the fact that the current implementation is not self- consistent.

sure, I agree. We are working on the XBL form controls, and I don't want to spend too much time on the current set of form controls since they will be going away.

re: comment #3, can you provide a citation for where the spec says this? i just checked over the css1 & css2 specs & didn't see anything to this effect...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79107 ***