Having written javascript to perform various style changes to elements being hovered over, and struggled with the nightmare that is dragenter and dragleave events, I thought :-moz-drag-over would be a breath of fresh air. Just apply my styles to appropriate elements with the -moz-drag-over pseudo-class selector, what could be simpler?
It doesn't work. Of course, it does work, but it only applies the style to the exact selected element that would be the target of a dragenter or dragleave event. As anyone who has ever done this will tell you, that means that an element is not considered to be being dragged over when its children are being dragged over. Hence an element is not selected by :-moz-drag-over when its children would be selected by it. Even anonymous content! So drag over a toolbarbutton and your styles may show up for a moment before you drag over the icon or label and they disappear. What use is that?
Is :-moz-drag-over totally useless?
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Re: Is :-moz-drag-over totally useless?
I've never tried to use it, but it looks like dbaron agrees with you:
Also, an MXR search shows it being used exactly zero times in working Mozilla code (other than tests and the definition of the thing itself). From a quick look, it seems just like you said -- not really doing anything worthwhile.
dbaron wrote:I also think :-moz-drag-over should probably be hierarchical just like :active and :hover. (This involves changing nsEventStateManager::GetContentState and nsEventStateManager::SetContentState.)
Also, an MXR search shows it being used exactly zero times in working Mozilla code (other than tests and the definition of the thing itself). From a quick look, it seems just like you said -- not really doing anything worthwhile.
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Re: Is :-moz-drag-over totally useless?
Thanks. I actually spotted that bug while researching this, but ignored it because it was so old and the title was clearly no longer correct. D'ohh!