208283 - css border-style using the parent A:link details rather than image descendant selector

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[neil walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; H010818)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-GB; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425

If I set 'A:link' (and others) border-style to be, say, dotted, then 
set 'A:link IMG' to have no border-style and (assuming the image is 
transparent) the border-style is taken from A:link and not 'A:link IMG'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create some HTML as in the attachment
2 [details] [diff] [review].
3.



Expected Results:  
not shown the border-style

Comment 1

[neil walker]

Attachment: a simple html showing that the image still has a border-style despite the CSS not having it

This also happens in Opera 7.  I'm sure it should not be happening as otherwise
how can you apply a border-style?

Comment 2

[neil walker]

One thing I have noticed though, is on traversing the DOM using the Mozilla 
tree it said that the A element had a border style of dotted and then the image 
had a border style of none.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

This is what is supposed to happen.  The IMG is not "taking style" from the A
tag.  The A tag has its border (which you've defined) and the IMG its own (which
you've defined as none).  They are two completely separate things and are being
separately styled.  The A tag is not somehow going to inherit the style of tags
contained within it (which is completely backwards as to the direction of
inheritance in CSS anyway).  Invalid.

Comment 4

[Erik Fabert]

*** Bug 308477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***