193688 - A:hover affects anchors

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Description

[Janick Bernet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I don't know if this is really a bug, but it is surely a useless behaviour in my
opinion: if you define a a:hover proprerity the hover effect is not only applied
to links but also to anchors. Maybe this is defined like that in the
W3C-CSS-recommendations, but as far as I know :hover only applies to links.
Anyway, why should someone want an anchor beeing underlined? At least there
should be a possibility like a:link:hover to really ONLY affect links.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Define the CSS-properity A:hover
2. create an anchor using <A name="anchorname">anchor</a>
3. mouse over the anchor

Actual Results:  
anchors are affected on mouse over

Expected Results:  
no affection of anchors

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

a:link:hover does in fact work...

Comment 2

[Janick Bernet]

You're right a:link:hover does work, but you have to define a:visited:hover if
you want the hover on visited links, too. I didn't realize that and though
a:link:hover doesnt work at all, sorry.

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

Janick - you may need to be careful though, because some older browers trip over
some of these variations. this page is a useful guide -
http://dbaron.org/css/1999/09/links

verified invalid (although I'm it's a dupe...)