Closed Bug 122979 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

:hover color and background attributes aren't inherited correctly

Categories

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
CSS Parsing and Computation
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jens-erik_weber, Assigned: dbaron)

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Details

(Keywords: css2, testcase)

I have defined background and color for a:hover in a CSS. Then there is a <div class="box"> with overwritten background and color attributes for a:link and a:visited, while the color & background for a:hover and a:active are not overwritten, so they should have the general assigned values, i.e. the colours of the link should change, but they don't in Mozilla 0.97 for Linux and Windows, in Opera 6.0 TP 1 they do. If you don't assign any of the values for "box a:link", "box a:visited", "box a:hover" and "box a:active", the general assigned values apply and work correctly. See 2nd alternate stylesheet in my testcase. If you assign all of the values for "box a:link", "box a:visited", "box a:hover" and "box a:active", then these overwritten values apply and work correctly. See 3rd alternate stylesheet in my testcase. But overwriting only "box a:link", "box a:visited" without overwriting "box a:hover" and "box a:active" doesn't work. I haven't tried other combinations (and I don't have time for it).
Keywords: css2, testcase
That's because hover is not currently hierarchical *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5693 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Why is this a duplicate. Rather...
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
... it's INVALID. The selector ".box a:link" has higher specificity than any a:hover so it overrides it. MSIE has incorrect behavior where it doesn't treat selectors with :hover according to the normal specificity rules.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Reporter, CSS2 spec http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#dynamic-pseudo-classes says: "Note that the A:hover must be placed after the A:link and A:visited rules, since otherwise the cascading rules will hide the 'color' property of the A:hover rule." Also hover.css has an error at line 11.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Err whoops, my bad. Been a rough week for me :(
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