304884 - some hyperlinks with javascript (onClick, onMousover) not hot - cannot click

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50215)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Here is the way a particular event link is coded on a certain page:

<a onMouseover = this.style.cursor='hand'; onClick=EventsOpen("8%2F16%2F2005+2%
3A00%3A00+PM")><u>8/16/2005</u></a>

Mozilla 1.7.11 and Firefox 1.6 WILL NOT work with this kind of link.
 
Here is the way the same link is coded on another page:

<a href="public_events.asp?date=8%2F16%2F2005&W=&C=&S=")>8/16/2005 2:00:00 
PM</a>

Mozilla 1.7.11 and Firefox 1.6 WILL work with this kind of link.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to page.
2.try to click on link
3.link is not clickable

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
go to a detail page

Netscape 8 has no problem with these links (either way).

Comment 1

[Martin Pain]

Hyperlinks will not appear with normal highlighting (normally blue & underlined)
unless they have a href attribute. Therefore:

<a href='' onclick='alert("clicked")'>click me</a>

will be formatted normally, but 

<a onclick='alert("clicked")'>click me</a>

will not. To format all links as blue and underlined, use one of the following
css rules:

a {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;}

or 

a[onmouseover], a[onclick] {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;}

The advantage of the 2nd rule is that tags like:

<a name="top of page"><h1>Title</h1></a>

will not have the normal link formatting

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Can you attach a small HTML page (testcase) that shows this problem?

Comment 3

[James]

function EventsOpen(dDate) {
	  document.location="<%= Application("baseURL")%>/portal/events.asp?
date=" + dDate;
	}

the code above is the function that is being called by the link.  This is 
probably where it is choking

Comment 4

[James]

You can use the following link for testing purposes:

http://www.communitycrossings.net/linkbugtest.asp

Note that the first link will throw an error when on the detail page but that 
is because you will not be logged in as a user - so ignore the error on the 
detail page it is not germaine to this matter).

Both links work (get to the detail page) in IE 6 and Netscape 8 (even though  
an error is thrown when they get there from the first link on this test page).

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.3 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.