279362 - Styles applied to anchors also apply to following elements, even if anchor is closed.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225323

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Steven Don]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

As the subject says, when an anchor has a style applied to it (notably styles
applied to a:hover) and is not closed with an explicit /a tag, but with a single
/ preceding the closing bracket, the style also applies to the following
elements. (See attachment). This should not happen.

It can get really annoying when the color set for the hover style is identical
to the background color. Things start "disappearing".

It is also mentioned in bug #149704, but that seems to be a dormant bug
originally meant for tags with truly missing closing tags.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check out the attachment
2 [review]. Move your mouse cursor over the top paragraph
3. Move your mouse cursor over the bottom paragraph

Actual Results:  
Bottom paragraph turns red.

Expected Results:  
Nothing.

Comment 1

[Steven Don]

Attachment: Test case

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

<a /> does not close the element in HTML.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225323 ***