145687 - Anchor styles incorrectly applied to named anchors

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Timofey Vorobyov]

(testcase is to be attached)
<A NAME="..."> constructs without closing </A> tag appear as links (i.e. inherit
link behavior from css. This bug does not appear in 0.9.8 for OS/2, neither in
0.9.9/Win

I am not specifying any URL, since it is an intranet site not accessible from
outside

Comment 1

[Timofey Vorobyov]

Attachment: testcase (unzip to get html and relevant images and css inside)

news.html is the page that shows improper behavior

Comment 2

[Jessica Blanco]

I see same behavior on Windows NT. Looked at latest nitely - 
20-May-2002.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Confirming. This one is ugly.

Not sure how many sites it affects, but it could be a lot.

Basically, Mozilla applies anchor styles to text within a named anchor.

Attaching small testcase

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Very simple testcase

I have verified this on current trunk and branch builds.

Comment 5

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

This is not a bug.  :hover is a dynamic-pseudo class and whether it matches has
nothing to do with whether an element is an anchor.  See the CSS2 chapter on
Selectors.

If you think there are considerable numbers of real websites that this causes
problems on, then we could consider making our current quirk (which only applies
to "global" selectors, i.e., ":hover" rather than "a:hover") stronger.  I've
actually had some suggestions recently that we should remove the quirk entirely
(which would make it easier for authors to use :hover to its full potential).

See http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/1999/09/links for a
description of how to use :hover and :active correctly and see
http://mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/ for a description of quirks mode.

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

yeah -- see bug 5693 for more details