132598 - Basic CSS :hover functionality is broken

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75559

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[brian]

Basic :hover functionality applied to a paragraph does not work correctly. In
the simplest case, it only applies while the mouse is hovering inside the
p-element's bounding box, but NOT over any of the contained text. I will attach
a test page in a moment that illustrates this problem.

I am using 0.9.9.

There are too many CSS :hover bugs for me to know if this simple case is a
duplicate or which bug it might be a duplicate of.

Comment 1

[brian]

Attachment: Test page to illustrate the problem

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The second paragraph is a duplicate of bug 5693, the third is a duplicate of the
bug to remove the hack that was put in to fix a huge performance problem on
http://www.w3.org/ and similar sites, although we could fix this case by just
changing that hack.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That third paragraph bug David refers to is bug 75559.  resolving duplicate of
that (since that's a clear bug whereas bug 5693 is still tied up in committee).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75559 ***