206609 - Hyperlinks inactive if not on same horizontal division as right-hand text

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Richards]

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

I have a *very* strange issue.

Some of the menu items on the page www.badtransit.com do not operate. 

It seems that, depending on the size of the "Picture of The Day" which appears
on the web site (image and sizes vary between blocks and therefore the length of
the block changes with each page refresh) the hyperlinks associated with the
menuitems on the left side of the page will work *only when they are in the same
horizontal area occupied by the image and text to the right.

Below this horizontal positon the block the menu item hyperlinks do not work
(although the buttons show)!  It was suggested that I was missing a </div>.  I
was, but this did not fix the issue.  

Of course, this page renders in ie just fine.  It's amazing what ie lets through.

This is the page layout:

PAGE HEADER
-----------------------------------------------------------------
MENU_________PHOTO OF THE DAY
AREA_________BLOCK
...._________............. (length varies as a new
...._________.............  block is displayed each page refresh)
...._________.............
...._________ TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2
...._________TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2
...._________TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2
...._________TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2
...._________TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2
...._________TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2
...._________TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2
...._________TABLE COLUMN 1 | TABLE COLUMN 2 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open page www.badtransit.com
2.Buttons to the left of "Todays MBTA Photo Feature operate"
3.Buttons to the left of "Announcements" do not operate (hyperlinks dead)



Expected Results:  
Hyperlinks should operate

Comment 1

[u63580]

Your build is a bit old, but I can see this in my installation too.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030520

Comment 2

[Mark Richards]

I updated to the latest build and the problem persists.

Comment 3

[Jesiah S]

DIV#content is on top of DIV#menu.  Currently moz dosn't allow mouse clicks to
go through transparent parts. bug 102695
To get by this I would change the margin-left for DIV#content to 125px or
something like that.  This will move the DIV#content from over DIV#menu.

LInux 2003052110

Comment 4

[Mark Richards]

That little work around solved a major problem!  Many many thanks!!

I had no idea that this overlap would be a problem (ie lets me get away with it).

One (of the many) nice things about Mozilla is that when i re-size the window
the content does not wrap.  In ie it does, shoving stuff from the Content
division below the menu and leaving a huge white space on the page.  Mozilla==smart.

I will change the status to fixed, based on your suggested workaround.