270155 - visibility style attribute not being rendered properly on SPAN tags when set to hidden.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Andrew D. Newbould]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

Using: <span id="myHideCont" style="visibility='hidden';"><a
href="dummy.htm">Some Content</a></span>

This content should be hidden when a page loads (it does in other browsers)
however Mozilla 1.7.1 still displays the content. If you define an OnLoad
function to set the visibility to hidden (ie: myHideCont.style.visibility =
"hidden";) after the page loads the content gets hidden. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add [<span id="myHideCont" style="visibility='hidden';"><a
href="dummy.htm">Some Content</a></span>] to standard empty document.
2. Load page into Mozilla and content is still visible when should be hidden.


Actual Results:  
[Some Content] is rendered as a hyperlink on the screen despite the SPAN tag
having its visibility property set to "hidden".

Expected Results:  
the [Some Content] hyperlink should not be visible and therefore clickable until
the visibility style property is set back to "visible".

Using standard theme (no third party ones installed).

Comment 1

[Erik Fabert]

Do not use JavaScript syntax with the style attribute, the correct (and working) 
way to do this is <span style="visibility: hidden">.