1037896 - Ellipsis from text-overflow obscures an active hyperlink

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Brent Laabs]

<div style="font-family: Arial; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; width: 14.7em; white-space: nowrap">Some content leading up to a <a href="http://mozilla.com/">hyperlink</a>.</div>

The ellipsis covers the text in the hyperlink entirely, but remains an active hyperlink.  Expected: either the ellipsis cannot be a hyperlink with no portion of the hyperlink text visible, or takes on the relevant style for an <a> element.

A user could unknowingly click the ellipsis and go to a web page they were not intending to visit, making this a security risk for websites with user-generated content.  (see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67896 which is where this came from)

Comment 1

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA (back on May 31)]

I can see it in latest Aurora 33.0a2, but not in Nightly 34.0a1 under Win 7 64-bit (https://nightly.mozilla.org) where the summary is resized along with the browser.

Could you please confirm and then, if needed, we'll see if the bug that fixed it will be uplifted.

Comment 2

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Hi,
Marking this as Resolved: Incomplete due to the lack of response from the reporter.
Reporter, please feel free to reopen it if you are still having this issue.