333130 - pascocountyfl.net - font size inside link elements

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jeff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Emailed county and they said try IE which I did. It looked fine. Only with Firefox did some of the underline appear in the center of text.

This isn't enough to stop me from using FF 1.5.01 but figured you might look into it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log on to site. Look right side table
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Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

> Only with
> Firefox did some of the underline appear in the center of text.

I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.1 build 20060111 under XP Pro SP2 and I do not see where  or what you are referring to when mentioning the underlining in the center of text. Can you be more specific?
I see no underlining in the "Elected Officials" table.

The http://pascocountyfl.net/welcome.asp webpage uses a lot of deprecated elements and attributes (and has over 59 validation markup errors) and uses 5 deeply nested tables.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

D'oh, I should have spotted it, but I wasn't thinking standards-mode. The page's doctype triggers standards-mode, which doesn't have any workaround for people making the mistake of saying |<a href=""><font size="1">foo</font></a>|, which gives a link, and its associated underline, that's taller than the text. |<font size="1"><a href="">foo</a></font>| instead (or just removing the doctype so it gets quirks-mode parsing), either one, will fix it up.

Jeff, since you've already been in contact with them, would you be willing to get in touch again, and let them know that even though IE currently isn't bothered by that error in their markup, other browsers are, and there's no guarantee that future versions of IE won't also get that bit of layout right and break them?

Comment 3

[Jeff]

Followed up with Pasco County as requested today. If, when I get a reply, I'll pass it along. Interesting quirk, link/font/undeline strike-though.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.