295295 - a form on one side of the page in a div makes links on the other side of the page unclickable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102695

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[scottjunk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

http://scott.connerly.net/blog/comment.php?post=330
It seems to have to do with form elements and links. It is that the form on the
right of this page in a div makes links on the left unclickable that share y
coordinates.  Links on the left that are farther down the screen don't have that
problem

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
um, put the form in a div in the right side of the table.  have links in a div
in the left side of the table.
Actual Results:  
it can't be clicked on

Expected Results:  
be clicked on...

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052403
I see this too

Comment 2

[scottjunk]

Attachment: Example HTML

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It doesn't so much have to do with forms and links as it does with absolute
positioning and z-index: since you don't specify z-index on anything, and you
have the form and the links stacked on top of each other, the one that comes
last in the source is on top of the earlier one. You can't click the links
because you are just clicking on the empty parts of the div containing the form.

Comment 4

[scottjunk]

Should Mozilla really keep you from clicking on a link just because it is on a
lower layer??  I don't think so.  Yes, I was able to resolve my page with this
(thank you Phil!!) but I think this issue still deserves to be reviewed by at
least one more person-

the question at hand: should text/links on lower z-indexes really be
un-selectable and un-clickable?

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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