21424 - links in page not recognized in Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 21099

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

Description

[andreww]

Steps to replicate:
1) launch mozilla
2)go to http://www.news.com
3) look on right hand side of page, under "one week view"

4) click on one of the bulleted items.
(for example: Enterprise Computing or  the Net)

Expected results -
Browser follows link

Actual results
Browser does not recognize that those items even are links. No underline or
change in mouse pointer

View page in Nav 4.7 to see that Nav 4.7 does in fact recognize the links.

Comment 1

[andreww]

Trying to view source on this page crashes the browser ...

Comment 2

[andreww]

Attachment: example of link problem

Comment 3

[andreww]

View the attached file in Mozilla to see a smaller test case.

Comment 4

[troy]

The HTML has a SPAN nested inside of an A element.

<a
href="http://www.news.com/Newsmakers/index.html?tag=st.ne.1002.dir.Newsmakers.ne
"><span style='color: #0000FF'><font
color='#0000FF'><b>Newsmakers</b></font></span></a>

The parser is moving everything outside of the A element.

    a@0214EA24 href=/cnettv/0-122653.html?tag=st.ne.1002.dir.cnetnewstv.cn refco
unt=3<
    >
    span@0214C8D4 style=color: rgb(0,0,255);  refcount=3<
      font@020A68FC color=#0000ff refcount=3<
        b@020A62DC refcount=3<
          Text@020A6348 refcount=3<CNET News.com TV>
        >
      >
    >

Comment 5

[rickg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21099 ***

Comment 6

[Chris Petersen]

Agreed. Marking as verified duplicate of 21099.

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/252024bc49bd
[fenix] Closes https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/21424: add marker for StrictMode.resetAfter.