286242 - Should handle nested anchors consistently

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90664

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Ng Ming Hong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Being an invalid HTML, when there is nested anchor elements like <a
href="http://www.goodguy.com"><a href="http://www.badguy.com">Click me
;-)</a></a>, Mozilla visits the outer anchor when left-clicking, but the inner
anchor when right-clicking (save as).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Left-click on a nested anchor
2. Right-click on a nested anchor


Actual Results:  
Visit outer anchor on left-click, but inner anchor on right-click.

Expected Results:  
Should be consistent: either outer or inner anchor.

Workaround: Press and hold mouse button over the anchor to see real url.

Comment 1

[Gary van der Merwe]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

WFM (allways uses inner)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050308
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Ng Ming Hong]

Attachment: Corrected testcase

My fault. Need to have an element in between the 2 anchors, e.g.
<a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logo.gif">
  <div>
    <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ant.jpg">Save me</a>
  </div>
</a>

Comment 4

[Ng Ming Hong]

And that element needs to be an non-inline element like div, p, table, etc.
Inline elements like span will just work fine.

P.S. Next time, please visit the URL before making the test case. ;-)

Comment 5

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

I fixed this bug in the HTML parser over in bug 90664. I'm marking this bug a
duplicate of that one.

Note that there is another bug on the actual problem with the behavior of nested
links (the difference between right and left click behavior).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90664 ***