40575 - Anchor link background color fails to paint across width specified by CSS

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Colin Brown]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m15)
BuildID:    2000041805

When the background-color and width properties of an Anchor link are set using
CSS, the background color is only visible behind the anchor link text. It should
display across the specified percentage of the parent element's width.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a HTML file containing an Anchor link with the style properties (for
example) background-color: yellow; width=100%


Actual Results:  The background color does not extend to 100% of the width of
the parent element.

Expected Results:  The background color should extend to 100% of the width of
the parent element.

<A style="width=100%; background-color: yellow"
href="http://www.me.com">Background color should extend across width of parent
element</A>

Comment 1

[Colin Brown]

Attachment: HTML file that shows anchor link background color CSS problem

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The 'width' property does not apply to inline non-replaced elements.  See CSS2
section 10.3.1.  Marking INVALID.

Comment 3

[gerardok]

massive update for QA contact.

Comment 4

[Loco]

Marking VERIFIED.

Comment 5

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

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