280296 - Content in :before :after with text-decoration:none inherits underline from parent element

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Steven Barnett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When content is added with :before or :after to an element with a style of
text-decoration: underline, the added content will also be underlined, even if
it has a style of text-decoration: none.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See testcase.
Actual Results:  
p:after content inherits underline from p, despite its style of text-decoration:
none

Expected Results:  
p:after content should not have an underline.

Comment 1

[Steven Barnett]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

text-decoration isn't inherited.  It's draw across descendants, and can't be
overridden on descendants.