On Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:19:58 GMT, Marius Hanl <[email protected]> wrote:

>> The third split PR of the CSS saga™.
>> 
>> In this episode, I have  a cornercase, but still a valid bug, found in 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/2225.
>> 
>> In JavaFX, there is this rule where `USER < AUTHOR` style. That is, CSS will 
>> set the property value, e.g. opacity, to the value defined in the `Scene` 
>> stylesheet and ignore if the value was set by a setter.
>> 
>> It is still possible to overwrite such value by a setter, but it will be 
>> reapplied in the very next CSS pass.
>> 
>> Now, when we apply a style in a listener which is called during CSS reset, 
>> this style may override the CSS value.
>> This only happens when you style a property that is defined before the 
>> property you are listening to.
>> 
>> A CSS style reset is the operation to set the property value to the original 
>> value because it is not styled anymore (e.g. because we removed or added a 
>> `PseudoClass`).
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> Example: `Node`'s `CssMetaData` adds `OPACITY` first and later `TRANSLATE_X`.
>> 
>> So opacity is reset first, then `translateX`. If we now set the `opacity` in 
>> a `translateX` listener, we can successfully override the `opacity`.
>> 
>> The very next CSS pass will however recover this (e.g. calling `applyCss` 
>> again).
>> This is not needed anymore with the fix.
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> I added two tests, they are basically the same, just the order is changed.
>> - The first test failed before, because it sets the `opacity` in a 
>> `translateX` listener
>> - The second test succeeds before and after, because it sets the 
>> `translateX` in a `opacity` listener
>> 
>> Again, shows: `OPACITY` is processed first, later `TRANSLATE_X`, which with 
>> the fix does not matter anymore.
>> I reused the existing reset property logic. It is now called like before, 
>> and as part of this fix.
>> 
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>
> modules/javafx.graphics/src/main/java/javafx/scene/CssStyleHelper.java line 
> 981:
> 
>> 979:         while (it.hasNext()) {
>> 980:             Entry<CssMetaData, CalculatedValue> entry = it.next();
>> 981:             if (!isUnstyled.test(entry.getKey())) {
> 
> @andy-goryachev-oracle your question is probably relevant for this code?
> We could test here for `!cssMetaData.isSettable(styleable))` and just 
> continue. I at least see no harm in doing so. We can't reset it anyway, so we 
> might as well skip it before. 
> 
> Since I just reuse the code from https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/2038, 
> maybe @mstr2 know more.

we probably should not `it.remove()` before `isSettable()` is checked in L1005

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2343#discussion_r4252950010

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