241412 - anchors (view map, printer friendly) don't show as selectable anchors

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Kris Benson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

In the page at http://birchcreek.ca/paradigm.swd/where.php the anchors (view
map, printer friendly) don't show as usable links.  They are treated as normal
text.  

The page validates as XHTML Transitional, and the CSS is valid also.

The problem is localized to the Mozilla engine (both newest Mozilla and an older
Firebird exhibit this issue), and the issue is not present with IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. load page
2. mouseover text that should be links


Actual Results:  
nada. nothing. zilch. zero.

Expected Results:  
should have allowed me to click text and taken me to the appropriate page.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> The page validates as XHTML Transitional, and the CSS is valid also.

Valid doesn't mean correct.  In this case, the problem is that positioned
(including relatively positioned) boxes are above floating boxes in the z-order
unless specified otherwise, per the CSS 2.1 spec.  So when you click, you're
clicking on the paragraphs (which overlap the links), not the links themselves.
 Making those paragraphs "z-index:-1" should help.

> the issue is not present with IE.

That's mostly because IE's z-index handling has nothing to do with what's
correct per CSS 2.1