225478 - Can't click on <a> element with :hover and :after

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Xanthor Sccas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008

When we define in CSS a style with the pseudo selectors :hover:after with a
content (for exemple adding a flag after a link when the mouse is over it), we
can't click on this link.
Ctrl+clik, middle click, and right click works, but not left click.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a CSS line lite : a:hover:after {content : 'what you want';}
2. Try to click on a link with this style
Actual Results:  
When we click on the link, nothing occures

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should load the linked page, with the same behaviour if it was no style

Tested with : Mozilla 1.4.1, Firebird 0.7, Epiphany 1.0.3, in differents debians
and on a Mandrake

Seems to work with windows...

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

If I am not mistaken,  this is a duplicate of bug 46891

Comment 2

[Xanthor Sccas]

I don't think so : bug 46891 don't talk about :hover selector
Without it, the test works for me...

(I add that this bug has been confirmed with a firebird 0.7 on RH)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme  with a current linux build, actually.  This got fixed in bug 188525
and I don't see any reason it would have regressed...

Reporter, what windowmanager are you using?

Comment 4

[Xanthor Sccas]

I'm using sawfish 1.3, but the bug has been confirm with kwm and xfwm (I don't
know which version)

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Try twm of fvwm or some other sane WM... if it goes away, it's probably bug 102578

Comment 6

[Joe McCabe]

I have not yet attempted to recreate the test case.

I strongly suspect this bug is addressed by the checkin for 102578.

Comment 7

[Xanthor Sccas]

Yes, it's fixed.
Sorry for the delay...

(I change the bug to resolved. Correct me if I shouldn't...)