268672 - blockbuster.com - Links in table at left do not associate properly with underlying text

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Steven Hunter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

The text in the table on the left of the page does not properly line up with the
clickable area. You must click the whitespace just above the text in order to
activate the link. Looking at the page source, I don't see anything unusual (but
what do I know?). Fails in Mozilla 1.7 and also FireFox 1.0. Works in IE 5.5.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem is that the anchors have 10px paddings.  So the (non-clickable)
padding of the next anchor overlaps most of the previous anchor, and covers it
up.  Setting a background on the anchors would show this very well (the previous
anchor would be mostly covered by the background).

IE's implementation of padding on inlines is pretty broken, which is probably
why it doesn't have a problem here.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 3

[Steven Hunter]

Sometime ago they rediesigned thier layout eliminating this issue.