277589 - bad writen html causes false use of stylesheet a:hover

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

during browsing the manual vom pear.php.net i found an error on all manual pages
(eg. http://pear.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php):

sometimes the color of an normal paragraph changes the hover-color of an anchor.

the a:hover style (in http://pear.php.net/css/style.css) effects the other tags.
(<p>, <h?>, ...)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
move mouse over an <p> tag that is located in front of an <a> tag (for example
over this string: "A standard style for code written in PHP," on this page:
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php)

Actual Results:  
nothing...

Expected Results:  
don't use a:hover on an paragraph :)

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

there is an unclosed <a name> in front of this tag. this is the <a> that
triggers the :hover. hence, this is not a bug, but a fault in the webpage. invalid.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

(also, this is HTML, not XHTML. it would not even be wellformed XHTML, since
various tags are not closed etc. but since the page is sent as text/html, it
gets treated as HTML 4.01)