37889 - No text links work, only images

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37578

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[peterj]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-6.1.1 i686; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000501
BuildID:    2000050111

None of the text links (to articles) on this page work.  They're laid out
properly, and coloured properly, but the mouse pointer does not change shape
over the article titles and clicking them does not navigate anywhere.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the URL.
2. Try to click any of the links in the "yellow" part of the page; note that no
navigation takes place.
3. Click any image link and note that the browser loads the new page.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Same bug can be observed with 2000-042809 M16 Linux.
This is likely a duplicate of bug 37578: "Links no longer links"

Comment 2

[Kevin Puetz]

confirming, but there are lots of problems in the HTML on this page. I'll name a
few, probably including the key ones... go to http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aint-it-cool-news.com%2F for the whole list

on line 193, the <TR> was omitted for the table.

in numberous cases, <A HREF=""><H3>...</H3></A> was used. this is not valid
html. The desired behavior should be implemnented by <H3><A HREF="">...</A></H3>
also, there are comments in the page containing '--' which is not allowed in an
html comment.

While mozilla sometimes does add renderer quirks for broken HTML, it is always
more desirable to see the page corrected - could the reporter please contact the
webmaster?

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

I think this is bug 37578; reopen if you disagree

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37578 ***

Comment 4

[Matt Perry]

Verified duplicate.

Comment 5

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.