dojo.style(node, 'color') & <select>

[weber2nd11]

I didn't see any tickets about this issue; hopefully I'm not beating a dead horse.

In Firefox 2 & Firefox 3 (it doesn't occur in IE6, IE7, Chrome 1.0.154.36, Opera 9.63, or Safari 3.1.2 on Windows XP Pro), when you use dojo.style(nodeReference, "color"); as a getter for <option> tags within a <select> menu, it will return rbg(255, 255, 255) every time, irregardless of what value is actually set on the <option> tag.

See attached .html file for an example.

[weber2nd11]

Small HTML file illustrating the described behavior. Pulls Dojo 1.2.3 from AOL CDN

[nic]

maybe wontfix: on Firefox the selected option *is* black, even if the inline style contains another color.
See the attached html.

[nic]

Pardon.
On Firefox the returned color is the color of the selected option: on my ubuntu box the current theme has white - rgb(255,255,255) - on blue background for selected items (you can see this color when the mouse cursor is over the option); if I change this setting, getComputedStyle (and dojo.style) reflects the theme change.