202610 - underlining for link is much longer than text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164700

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

Description

[Christopher Witkowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

Obfuscated email address (to make it a little more difficult for spammers to
collect the address) is not rendered properly. The underlining goes beyond the
text. IE gets it right and Mozilla gets the text right and the same as IE but it
gets the underlining wrong.

The following HTML fragment is not rendered correctly:

<a HREF="mailto:[e-mail]" style="word-spacing:
-.25em">c&nbsp;h&nbsp;r&nbsp;i&nbsp;s&nbsp;w&nbsp;@&nbsp;n&nbsp;c&nbsp;f&nbsp;.&nbsp;c&nbsp;a</a>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Underlining was longer than the text.

Expected Results:  
Underlining should have been the same length as the text.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Related to bug 164700?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Gotta love the HTML that MS Word produces... the relevant line is:

<a HREF="mailto:[e-mail]" style="word-spacing:
-.25em">c&nbsp;h&nbsp;r&nbsp;i&nbsp;s&nbsp;w&nbsp;@&nbsp;n&nbsp;c&nbsp;f&nbsp;.&nbsp;c&nbsp;a</a>

Looks like the <a> frame reflows based on the wrong size (does not apply the
word-spacing till it's painting).  You can even click on the part past the text....

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 4

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164700 ***