294699 - Unable to click link or select text that is covered/overlapped by a positioned, transparent layer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102695

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[pachollini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9

See the attached URL.
The same behavior in Firefox 1.04, Firefox 1.0+ 20050517, K-meleon O.9 and
Mozilla Suite 1.4, 1.7.4, and 1.8b2 nightly build.
Works in MSIEs and Opera.
Not sure, wheater this is a bug according to CSS, but it feels weired for me as
user - its visible, it should be clickable and selectable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the page.
2. Try to click the link.
3. Try to select the text of the link.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Go to the page or select text.

Workaround wor the webmaster in this case is setting height of the containing
absolutely positioned element to 0.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: bug-example2.xhtml - showing layer overlapping

The problem here is that there's a "transparent layer" overlapping the text.
I've added a background-color to that layer to show this.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102695 ***