65816 - [EVENTTARG]parts of links that are outside of absolute positioned parent are not active

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 13213

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[kmike]

look at the bottom of the page, link to "Windows Media file [15.8] MB" is
underlined and highlited, but doesn't work. no context menu either.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page uses some really messed up CSS positioning.. I'm guessing that
something else ends up getting the events meant for that link.

Removing the { position: absolute; left: -350px} on the outermost div on the
page seems to help that problem, but makes the rest of the page look terrible.

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

this works in ie5 and ns4.x though. moving to style system and letting them
determine if this is a moz bug or not.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking 
remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done 
directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the 
shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...

Comment 4

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Reassigned to joki.

Comment 5

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: reduced testcase

Comment 6

[Pierre Saslawsky]

*** Bug 74310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[basic]

this bug may have a better testcase than Bug 74310
but its summary is much to be desired:
Changing summary from:
link on this site doesn't work
To:
Links outside of block elements not active

make sure we test bug 74310's testcase to make sure it is fixed when this bug is.
http://anomaly.hrunting.org/index.html

Comment 8

[basic]

This seems to be affected by any style that causes a block to display left of or
above of the containing block. This might have more to do with layout than event
handling (much less DOM). I'll attach a testcase to show why.

Comment 9

[basic]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 10

[basic]

reassigning to layout

Comment 11

[basic]

Changing summary from:
Links outside of block elements not active
to:
parts of links that are outside of absolute positioned parent are not active

Comment 12

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->Event Handling

Comment 13

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 14

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 13213?

Comment 15

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13213 ***