20102 - Broken inline style sheets within <font>tag

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Pete Closs]

I use inline style sheets on my site to remove the underline from the links on
the left menu. Under Mozilla 5 this didn't originally work as the
style="text-decoration: none" was within the font tag. This was only fixed when
the in-line style sheet was moved into the a href tag.

All the menu linkson the left of my site now display properly under M11 after I
fixed this problem except for the last one which I have left intentionally
broken to demonstrate the problem.

The inline style sheet to remove underlines works fine under NS 4.7 and IE 5.

Comment 1

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

This is not a bug, since according to CSS1, text-decoration should span child
elements.

I recommend resolving this bug as invalid (although I don't like that part of
CSS.)

Comment 2

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Correct: the underline attribute is associated to the :link pseudo-class (ie. <a
href> tags) and spans child elements. The effect can be better seen with a code
such as:

<a href="http://www.portent.net"><font face="Arial" size="2" style="color:
green"><b>Tactics</b></font></a><br>


The word "Tactics" appear in green while the underline is still in blue.

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified invalid