20178 - [4.xP] <a href="link"><p></a></p> <table> gives bad links in table

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Gabe Jones]

Overview Description:

<a href="link.html"><p></a></p> causes links in a table that
immediately follows to point to "link.html".

Steps to Reproduce:

Either
a) Go to (the lovely, FrontPage-produced :) http://postcalc.usps.gov and try to click on any of the "Package", "Oversized package", etc. OR

b) Try the following minimal code:

<a href="bad.html">
<p>Link to bad.html</a></p>

<table>
  <tr>
    <td><a href="good.html">Should be link to good.html</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>

Actual Results:

All of the links on the USPS page point to the imagemap. All of the links in the given code snippet point to "bad.html".

Expected Results:

Although the above is ugly code, IE 5.0 and NN 4.7 handle it gracefully--all of the links on the USPS page point to the appropriate places, and the second link in the snippet points to "good.html".

Build Date & Platform Bug Found:

Win95 M11 Release

Additional Builds & Platforms Tested On:

None

Additional Information:

Placing an <a href="...">...</a> link after the closing paragraph marker & before the <table> tag eliminates the problem.  Arranging the tags in a sane manner (<p> before the <a> or </a> after the </p>) also corrects the problem.

Comment 1

[rickg]

Fixed by latest update that enables residual style handling.

Comment 2

[Alan S. Jones]

tested on Win95 works
marking verified