275145 - Background Position of the A element is based on the text not the actual height of the box.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Riven Cui]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6)
Gecko/20041217 Firefox/1.0+
BuildID:    20041217

The background is position and painted according to the text inside the A element,
Even when the css "height" property is defined for "A" , or an image inside
make the height of it become bigger.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See attachment

Actual Results:  Mozilla/Firefox paint background according to text.

Expected Results:  Perform the background painting of the whole "A" box. See
attachment bug2.zip

Comment 1

[Riven Cui]

Attachment: The files to reproduce the bug

Extract this file to a folder, and open bug2.htm

The file also contains an expected result.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

<A> is an inline element.  Height does not apply to inline elements.

Comment 3

[Riven Cui]

Attachment: Result renderred in Firefox

Result renderred in Firefox. Different from the expected result.

Comment 4

[Riven Cui]

Attachment: Page renderred in Opera 7.54

Page renderred in Opera 7.54, just as expected