270191 - Display:block elements inside links should also get focus outline when link is focused

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041115 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041115 Firefox/0.9.1+

In the url testcase, you can't see a focus outline when you focus one of the
headline links (second column).
This is because the html is constructed like this: <a
href="htpp//..."><div>headline</div></a>
I think it is reasonable to expect some sort of focus outline to indicate that
something has been focused.

I'll attach a minimised testcase.
This is possibly related to bug 261708.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Comparison between Mozilla and IE6

This is the result of what Mozilla and IE6 are doing when focusing these links.

Maybe, what IE6 is doing is not entirely correct, but I think it makes more
sense than what Mozilla is doing currently.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Patch for this in bug 424236.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Cool!

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/index.cgi/rev/2018e7c14383
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