112747 - CSS styled text changes color on mouseover at cnn.com

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 149704

(Core :: Layout, defect, P5)

Description

[eberry]

Go to: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_Investigation.html
Move the mouse cursor just above or below the dark red location/date 
headings in the main body of the stories in the middle of the page
The text in the paragraph below the line changes color to light blue from black 
for no apparent reason
This might be a CSS error on CNN's part, but it works (stays black) in IE 5.5.
Build: 2001-11-29-03 under W2K with a new profile, but this has been happening 
for several weeks

Screenshot coming...

Comment 1

[eberry]

Attachment: Screenshot of the paragraph changing colors to blue on mouseover

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Attachment: simplified testcase.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Not a DOM problem, the HTML on the page is messed up, our parser works
differently than IE's does in this case, but who knows who's incorrect. Over to
Parser, but my guess is that this is a WONTFIX bug...

Comment 4

[harishd]

Attachment: Testcase [ replaced "name" attribute with "href" ]

Notice that the style sheet has a hover rule. Some how IE ignores the hover if
the attribute "name" on the anchor is replaced by "href".

FYI: The anchor tag is reopened after </font> due to residual style.

Comment 5

[harishd]

Correction: In my previous comment

Notice that the style sheet has a hover rule. Some how IE ignores the hover if
the attribute "name" on the anchor is replaced by "href"

|Should read|

Notice that the style sheet has a hover rule. Some how IE ignores the hover if
the attribute "href" on the anchor is replaced by "name".

Comment 6

[harishd]

--> Layout

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 145105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

I don't think the bug has to do with CSS at all. AFAICS the point of this is
that the missing </a> makes the linked text extend to the very end.

If you agree the summary should be adjusted. Possibly there is a dupe.

pi

Comment 9

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149704 ***