148787 - [HAVE FIX] Clicked links don't go red (prefs style sheet is overriding UA style sheet)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P2)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2002060108, Mac OS 9.2

To reproduce:
1.  Mouse down on a text link on any page which does not specify its own :active
    style.

What should happen:
*   The link gets a focus border.
*   The link text goes red.

What actually happens:
*   the link gets a focus border.
*   Nothing else.

This is despite the existence of the following lines in html.css:
*|*:-moz-any-link:active {
  color: red;
}

Since clicking links is a fairly common activity, this is a major user
experience problem.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Patch 1.0

Comment 3

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Comment on attachment 86057 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch 1.0

sr=roc+moz

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 86057 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch 1.0

Change of plan. The fix we want for this is to remove the entire section of the
user prefs sheet, change the colours in html.css to be the system colours, and
hook up these new system colours to prefs.

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#css3-user

ActiveHyperlink, ActiveHyperlinkText, HoverHyperlink, HoverHyperlinkText,
Hyperlink, HyperlinkText, VisitedHyperlink, VisitedHyperlinkText

Comment 5

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

Comment on attachment 86057 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch 1.0

r=dbaron, if you want to check this in.

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Filed bug 149056 on implementing what Hixie described in comment 4.

Comment 7

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

patch checked in, marking fixed.

Comment 8

[Madhur Bhatia]

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