:empty still matches after content is added to element with display: none

• Component: CSS
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

Compare the following examples (using innerHTML to add content):

1) http://jsfiddle.net/gtXYC/0/ (works)
2) http://jsfiddle.net/gtXYC/1/ (broken)

Same problem using appendChild() instead of innerHTML:

3) http://jsfiddle.net/gtXYC/2/ (works)
4) http://jsfiddle.net/gtXYC/3/ (broken)

Examples 1/3: The div's background-color changes based on whether the div is empty or not.
Examples 2/4: Same situation, except that the visibility of the div should change. The problem is that :empty still matches after content is added to the div.

[David Barr]

Verified as fixed with WebKit Nightly Version 5.1.5 (6534.55.3, r115022).

[Julien Chaffraix]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Verified as fixed with WebKit Nightly Version 5.1.5 (6534.55.3, r115022).

Are we sure the test cases attached on this bug are covered? Shouldn't we land them to prevent a regression?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Since we don't know what fixed this, and haven't landed tests, this is WORKSFORME at best. I agree with Julien that we should investigate the need to land tests.

[David Barr]

$ bisect-builds http://jsfiddle.net/gtXYC/1/ -r 109280:109476 -p -s
Fails: r109280  Works: r109476
http://trac.webkit.org/log/trunk/?rev=109476&stop_rev=109281

See http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109417/trunk

  :empty still applies to elements made non-empty via page dynamics.
  https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79734

Covered by test:
  http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/fast/selectors/empty-element-made-non-empty.html?rev=109417

[David Barr]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 79734 ***

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Thank you for researching when this got fixed!