148129 - name anchors activate hover properties

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 143676

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[john russell]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

to maintain backwards compatibility i still use name anchors!
so instead of a simple  <h1 id="foo">Foo Bar</h1>
i include the name anchor
<h1 id="foo"><a name="foo>Foo Bar</a></h1>
in the lastest rc3 and net 7 this is recognized by hover and
lights in red according to my styling for hover. Link anchors
should respond but NAME anchors SHOULD NOT. 
I guess i could change to
<h1 id="foo"><a name="foo></a>Foo Bar</h1>  or
<a name="foo></a><h1 id="foo">Foo Bar</h1> 
but entails touching 100 files and many links.
Why not fix this!  Up to a month or so ago this
was working correctly in geeko .... other browsers
like msie and opera get it right ! 


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the test site
2.hover on the first heading
3.watch it go red .... even though it isnt hyperlink

Actual Results:  text color changes indicating hyperlink

Expected Results:  no color change as it isnt hyperlink !!!

worked up to about a month ago.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

see bug 143676

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

You realize that ':hover' may apply to any element, right?
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#x33

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

"John Russell" <[e-mail]> noted (in email) the CSS rule 'a[href]:hover' can be 
used to restrict the hover style only to links, while leaving the general purpose
meaning of :hover available for other applications. marking invalid (i.e., not
a bug).

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Also,

a:link:hover

can be used.  See http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/1999/09/links 
for a summary of how link styles work.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is a dup, reopening from invalid.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143676 ***

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

vrfy