268895 - bbc.co.uk - unclosed <a> tags breaking CSS of following text

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Description

[Spark2K]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When you point mouse over the article text it's get shown as link, however it's
not a link, also if you press on this "link" a some page won't be opened.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the specified URL.
2. Point mouse over the article text.

Actual Results:  
The article text will be shown as link.

Expected Results:  
Text should not chahge its view.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

They have open <a> anchors like this <a name=1> that aren't closed.  So the
a:hover CSS rules get applied to all the text that's inside the unclosed anchors.

Not a bug.  We're doing what the CSS and HTML say to do.  The site needs to fix
its code.  You might write to them and suggest it.
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Comment 2

[Spark2K]

Does it mean cursor should change its view to 'hand'?

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.