111228 - :hover style not applied to whole element if it contains a <br>

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98783

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Cedric Bouvier]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112009

When using a :hover style to bolden a link that spans several lines, only of
first line is rendered as bold.
Real life example in the menu on the left hand side of http://www.sgsonsite.com
(link to "frequently asked questions")

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://cbouvi.free.fr/testmoz.html
2. move the mouse over the two links
3. see what happens

Actual Results:  First link appears in bold all right when the mouse is over it.
For the second link, whose text spans across two lines, only the first line of
text appears in bold, while the second is left unchanged. 

Expected Results:  I would have expected everything between <a...> and </a> to
be rendered in bold.

There's a code snippet at http://cbouvi.free.fr/testmoz.html

I could reproduce it with 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 on WinNT and Linux.

Comment 1

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

This is a duplicate.  I just found bug 93104, but I think there's another bug on
this that's more clearly described.  That bug is a mess, so perhaps it should be
marked a duplicate of this one.

Comment 2

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98783 ***