Safari 5.1 - Clicking on pull down list reloads all windows and tabs

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Safari 5.1 - Clicking on pull down list reloads all windows and tabs

Clicking on a <select> tag option on my website has the effect of reloading every windows and tab there is currently open. It worked fine on Safari 5.0 and works fine on other browsers. Happens on two different computers, yet it does not happen with every pull down list, only with the ones that have the grey line before the arrows.

Example:

http://festhome.com/festhome_cake/registro

Clicking on the year, country, whatever, they all reload everything on the browser.

Thanks for any help...

Safari 5.1-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 3:47 PM

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csixty4

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Jul 27, 2011 6:12 AM in response to ElderBrE

I don't have any help for you, but thanks for confirming it's not just me. It happens to me in 5.1 on Lion and Snow Leopard, and we get it on our company's web site and another one under development.

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ElderBrE Author

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Jul 27, 2011 6:50 AM in response to csixty4

Well, that is mostly why I decided to open the thread and send the bug report, since it was hard enough to find others with the problem, at least on Google. Hopefully we can get some attention on this, thanks for replying.

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csixty4

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Jul 27, 2011 8:21 AM in response to ElderBrE

When you apply certain styles to a select tag, Safari switches to a "design-friendly" dropdown control without any Aqua styling. That's what you're seeing when you get the "gray line" before the arrows.

So far, I've determined that going into the Web Inspector and removing styles until Safari uses the default Aqua control fixes the problem.

But, if I build a test page from scratch, and it has a "design-friendly" select it works fine. So, there's some combination of things at work here. The "design-friendly" control certainly seems to be the linchpin, though.

I can't spend any more time on it at work today, but I might futz with it some more tonight.

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ElderBrE Author

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Jul 27, 2011 10:11 AM in response to csixty4

You are correct.. for me, removing the border style on the CSS (border: solid 1px #cccccc;) activates the aqua pull down list and fixes the issue.

Colouring backgrounds also breaks the aqua-style.

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csixty4

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Jul 29, 2011 7:39 AM in response to ElderBrE

Just a heads-up -- it's fixed in the latest Webkit nightly build. Now...when do we get a new version of Safari with the fix? 🙂

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65329

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Aug 11, 2011 11:57 AM in response to csixty4

Is there a difinitive way to know when the next bug-fix release for Safari 5.1 will come out?

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