272993 - susiehansen.com - invalid closure of <a> tags breaking styling

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Description

[Miles Erickson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

In the page at http://www.susiehansen.com/calendar-bug.html, the first <H3> and
<P> get a:link and a:hover coloring/decoration even though they are not
contained within an anchor.

In the page at http://www.susiehansen.com/calendar-kludge.html, this is worked
around by adding an empty anchor "<a></a>" on Line 125.

The page passes the W3C HTML and CSS validators, and IE displays it correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open http://www.susiehansen.com/calendar-bug.html
2.Observe the highlighting of the first H3 and paragraph (San Pedro Promenade)
3.Open http://www.susiehansen.com/calendar-kludge.html
4.Observe that the addition of an "<a></a>" at the beginning of Line 125 works
around the parse error.

Actual Results:  
An <H3> and <P> that are not contained within an anchor were highlighted as a link.

Expected Results:  
The <H3> and <P> should have been displayed normally.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

<a name="SanPedroProm" id="SanPedroProm"/> is invalid.  You can't close the tag
like this unless you are serving your document as application/xhtml+xml, which
isn't the case here.

Since the <a> is thus effectively not closed, the tags within it pick up the <a>
styles.

Not a browser bug.  The site needs to fix its code.
->TE

Comment 2

[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.