172540 - :hover applied to non <A> tags, unaware that all page text gets :hover effect

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect, P4)

Description

[Vidar S. Ramdal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

When moving mouse pointer over text in example URL, text becomes underlined for
no obvious reason. Underlining disappears onmouseout.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the given URL
2. Move mouse over text body in article, watch text become underlined
3. Move mouse out to the side of page and watch underlining disappear

Actual Results:  
Text becomes underlined

Expected Results:  
Nothing

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

The paragraphs are in a TD assigned class "btbig".  In the
http://www.hindustantimes.com/on/sty/newsHome.css, btbig:hover is assigned
text-decoration: underline.  So the browser is doing exactly what the CSS is
telling it to do.

The site developers are assuming that :hover only applies to A tags, when in
fact it applies to any tag.
-->tech evangelism

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

The Mozilla behavior regarding this changed after 1.0.
(Netscaep 7.0 for example does not apply underline
to the <TD> element in question.)

See Bug 96984 for details. A comment by Zbarsky indicates
that the current case may not be what that fix wanted. See

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96984#c13

What the discussion in Bug 96984 reveals is that the applicability
of :hover may not be desirable for all elements.

Is this bug really an evangelism bug? Should :hover effect apply to 
<TD> on this page which is in Quirks mode?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's not applying to <td>.  It's applying to elements of class "btbig".  Yes, it
should apply to them.

The quirk is that raw ":hover" with no other qualifiers will not apply to <td>
in quirks pages.  But something like "#foo:hover" or ".foo:hover" will certainly
apply.

Comment 4

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.

Comment 5

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

The URL in the summary now gives a 404.

I checked some subpages of hindustantimes.com and they do not suffer from this
bug. (e.g. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_391393,001300510000.htm )

We should consider marking this bug worksforme or fixed.

Comment 6

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

I'm also not seeing any problems any more...marking as WORKSFORME.

Comment 7

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

(Or duplicate of bug 169078.)