381571 - SPAN reduces the link area of a link with given width to the text area

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Daniel Schnabel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

If you put a link inside SPAN-tags and assign the width:150px to the link, only the text is clickable. The space behind the text is no link area, although it belongs to the link.
But if you put the link into DIVs that are inside the SPANs the complete link box is clickable.
Please see the attachment for an example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Code:
<span>
<a href="" style="border-style:solid;display:-moz-inline-box;border-width:1px;width:150px">Testbutton</a>
</span>
Actual Results:  
space area behind the text is not clickable

Expected Results:  
space area behind the text is clickable

Comment 1

[Daniel Schnabel]

Attachment: html file with working and not working examples

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

FWIW this testcase looks and behaves differently between branch and trunk.

Comment 3

[Daniel.S]

(In reply to comment #2)
> FWIW this testcase looks and behaves differently between branch and trunk.

Can't confirm this statement, both look the same.

Firefox 3 and higher also work as expected.

Anyway: Daniel, I think you tried to emulate inline-block, which has been implemented in Firefox 3? -moz-inline-block would've been better then.