218249 - multiple sequential HREFS do not render the white space between them, runs words together

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48376

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Trevor Roydhouse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030712
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030712

Example HTML

<a NAME="aasb"></a>"AASB "means the <a HREF="s9.html#australia">Australian</a>
<a HREF="s9.html#accounting_standard">Accounting Standards</a> <a
HREF="s9.html#board">Board</a>.

The above HTML renders without any white space between the multiple sequential
HREFs producing:

"AASB "means the AustralianAccounting StandardsBoard.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See details above.
Actual Results:  
"AASB "means the AustralianAccounting StandardsBoard.

Expected Results:  
"AASB "means the Australian Accounting Standards Board.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The URL above works fine for me.  Could you attach or cite a testcase showing
the problem?

Comment 2

[Trevor Roydhouse]

The sampel HTML I provide dcame from this page:
http://bondi.austlii.edu.au/~trev/sa/s9.html.

Note: This is a development server. This file will not exist for very long.

The definition of "AASB " show the phenomenon.

Comment 3

[dolphinling]

On veiwsource I get

... the <a href="s9.html#australia">Australian</a><a
href="s9.html#accounting_standard">Accounting Standards</a><a
href="s9.html#board">Board</a>....

Comment 4

[Trevor Roydhouse]

My Mozilla (FreeBSD) view source shows the spaces.

Really, the spaces are there - I've just double-checked s9.html again with vi to
be sure, to be sure.

Lynx renders the page properly.

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903

seen there: look for "productsare"

per cut&paste:

"admit to quotation": financial productsare admitted to quotation on a market

the source:
<a NAME="admit_to_quotation"></a>"admit to quotation": <a
HREF="s9.html#financial_product">financial products</a> are <i>admitted to <a
HREF="s9.html#quotation">quotation</a> </i>on a market
if the market operator has 

Comment 6

[Bruce Davidson]

This is a problem. Its because you have nested <dl>s and mozilla has a problem
with inline tags within this (at least in quirks mode). See bug 48376. By
contrast where you have two <a>s with space between outside of a definition list
it works fine (look for "deed of company arrangement" in the sample page given).

Resolving this as a duplicate of 48376.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48376 ***