407766 - Title attribute tooltip does not display on formfields that are disabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 274626

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

The tooltip that displays on mouseover showing the content of the "title" attribute does not appear for form fields marked disabled.

Building a site (or an application) often means disabling a button or field for whatever reason... having the title tooltip really assists with giving the user feedback as to why they can't edit something...

e.g. checkbox and related tooltip...

[_] = editable checkbox
|_| = disabled checkbox

[_] Send me an email if the status changes
[_] Send me an email when fixed
|_| Send me an email on every update
   Tooltip: "Feature available on Premium Plan only"

Or, maybe a "Continue" or "Submit" button would be "grayed out" (disabled) until the user selects something... the Tooltip on the button would indicate:
  Tooltip: "Please select your payment option first"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create form elements with title attributes
2. View in browser, and mouseover elements (all work)
3. Add the disabled attribute to one or more fields
4. view in browser again, note that the tooltips are now missing (e.g. don't fire)
Actual Results:  
No helpful tooltip displayed

Expected Results:  
Helpful tooltip displayed

Comment 1

[Steve]

Attachment: Disabled Form example

sample test case.