277052 - padding option in <span can make elements unclickable

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[daneel]

The following code creates a link which cannot be clicked:

<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla website (click me)</a>
<br>
<span style="padding: 300px 0px 0px 300px"></span>

The span probably gets assigned space it should not get - and "overlays" the
link above it.

Quite a working way to really block "right click image savers". Just like
embedding an image or some text using a :before or :after CSS rule which makes
the inserted text/image unselectable.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

This is one of those times when the bugzilla-helper's "Expected results" is
really quite handy: what do you want? An artificial z-index for all links and
images that puts them on top of anything else, no matter what? That seems likely
to destroy far more than it helps.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is invalid -- the padding should be getting the click events, per CSS spec.