219853 - :hover selector not functionning in quirk mode, when no tagname specified

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197686

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Fabre Arnaud]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

In the page http://www.forum82.org/css_hover.html, the background-color of div
does not change when the mouse over it, despite the .foo:hover selector. The
problem is not present in standard compliance mode (ie by adding a correct
doctype to the html page)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display the page linked
2. Hover the text

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Changing of background-color of the div (according to css rule)

Changing selector to div.foo:hover prevent the problem, switching to standard
compliance mode too.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

intentional for compatibility with IE. Use standards mode.

Comment 2

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

See http://mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/