Closed Bug 270357 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

CSS text-decoration on inner-element within an A tag is not honoured

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167766

People

(Reporter: djr667, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

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

Placing a SPAN style='text-decoration: none;' inside an A element does not
remove the default underlining of link text.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>

<a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>

<p>

<!-- Shown in IE without underline, in Firefox with underline -->
<a href='http://www.mozilla.org'>
  <span style='text-decoration: none;'>Mozilla</span>
</a>

<!--
  My reading of the W3C spec (5.4.3 'text-decoration') does not imply that
Firefox's implementation
  is correct.

  I would expect the second link to have no underline.
-->

</body>
Actual Results:  
Second link is underlined

Expected Results:  
Second link should not be underlined

The workaround is to put the style on the A tag, but this is not so simple when
the SPAN HTML is generated by code that does not know its output will be inside
an A tag.
It's not supposed to remove it.  IE is doing it wrong.

See bug 167766.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167766 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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