288538 - [CSS: text-indent] Dotted line when clicking on a link too long since rv: 1.8b2

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Rob van der Linde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0+

When using CSS "text-indent" of a negative value on an active link inside a
heading, if you click on that link, the dotted line you see briefly extends all
the way to the left of the browser window.

This is after switching to the rv: 1.8b2 rendering engine, the 1.7 engine did
not seem to do this. A good example is the http://mozilla.org site itself, when
clicking on the mozilla logo.

example:

HTML:

<h1><a href="#">Example</a></h1>

CSS:

a {
   display: block;
   width: 200px;
   height: 50px;
   background: red;
   text-indent: -9999px;
}

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See details
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Dotted line extends al the way to the left

Expected Results:  
Dotted line should not be affected by text-indent? dotted line should only cover
the 200x50px area?

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

See bug 133165, comment 52 and further.
So this probably is invalid. 

Comment 2

[Rob van der Linde]

I checked out comment 52, bug 133165 and this was the thing that I was experiencing.

I know it can be fixed by adding overflow:hidden on the parent element (eg the
heading)

I just found it unusual that this was not in rv:1.7 and appeared in the latest
rv:1.8b2 Firefox build... but so long I know it can be fixed, that should be
fine I guess

Comment 3

[Joël Kuiper]

Attachment: testcase

added testcase

Comment 4

[Joël Kuiper]

Attachment: better testcase

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This looks invalid to me. Try it with a more reasonable, less abusive
text-indent and you'll see why.

Comment 6

[Ioana (away)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0

The dotted line has been gone in a long time. The attached testcase works the same on Firefox, IE and Chrome. Is there anything that still needs fixing here or should this just be marked invalid?

Comment 7

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