269834 - links in menu don't work if stylesheet applied

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[jimworm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

links in top menu don't work, but if an <a> is put in right after the menu div
then the links will work again (click link on page to see alternate)
the links also show up fine if the stylesheet is removed

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load up the page in firefox or mozilla
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
links don't work

Expected Results:  
the links in the topmenu portion should have the line-through hover effect, and
also be links (goes to non-existent x.html)

Comment 1

[jimworm]

Happens in Firefox 1.0 as well as 1.0PR

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is the correct behavior.  The links are floated, so they are out of flow
and the id="mainbody" div overlaps them.  Since that div is positioned, it's
higher in the z-order than the float is, so clicking clicks on the div, not the
float underneath it.  Setting clear on the mainbody will give you working links...

In the working page, the text you added forces the mainbody down so it no longer
overlaps the links.