303265 - bad characters in "Back to Top" link

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Mario Lia]

I'm using Firefox 1.0.6 on Win2000
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

If you look at the source code for the tips page you will see
<p class="toplink"><a href="#">Back to Top</a></p>
(hopefully that doesn't get munged...)
Basically, there is a p tag with the class "toplink" surrounding a anchor tag
that links the text "Back to Top" via a "#" link. And the link does in fact work.

The problem is that just before the words "Back to Top" there are some bad
characters as part of the link (upside down questionmark, 1/2, etc). I'm
guessing this is more of an issue with the CSS for this page(support.css),
rather then the page itself, although I'm sure it could be some kind of encoding
issue as well.

I'm attaching a jpg of the issue for all to see.

Comment 1

[Mario Lia]

Attachment: picture of bad characters

Comment 2

[u115577]

Yes, this is a problem in support.css.
Patch:

 /* link to top of page */
 p.toplink a:before {
-	content: "? ";
+	content: "\00ab\0020";
 }

Thank you.