167371 - colored blue rectangles not visible, so that white menu buttons are not seen. Works OK on MSIE

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Aaron Sloman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020906
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020906

There are several menu buttons on left of that page which are not visible
unless you happen to move the cursor over them. That's because they are
white buttons and are supposed to be surrounded by a blue area (which I
discovered by viewin in IE)

I've confirmed this problem also using mozilla on Win2000 PC.

I've notified the web site owners, so maybe they will change it before
anyone from mozilla checks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.chargenet.co.uk
2. move mouse pointer up and down slowly on left side.
3.watch menu buttons become visible when they change from white to yellow.

Actual Results:  
as above

Expected Results:  
On MSIE mozilla painted a blue rectangle making the menu buttons
continuously visible.

I think I have found other cases like this in the past.

I tend to delay reporting things to give others with more technical
knowledge a chance to submit more specific reports.

I don't know if this could be a site developer (mis)-using a
microsoft-specific feature that works only on IE.

I tried Opera. it also failed to display the blue rectangles, but
it displayed the links in blue and underlined them so that I could
see them anyway!

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

the CSS syntax is possibly invalid, see:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chargenet.co.uk%2F&warning=1&profile=none

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Just crappy CSS in http://www.chargenet.co.uk/chargenet.css

This is what they need to do:
1. remove all " characters
2. replace all = with :

Then the page will display correctly.

--> Tech Evangelism

Comment 3

[Aaron Sloman]

Thanks for comments.

I reported the comment to site owner who has agreed to make
changes, and also says:

|That's what comes from copying and modifying CSS files
|you find on the net!)
 
|And my thanx to mozilla team.
 

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

verified

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg