413570 - Overlay DIV disables links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102695

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dav4is]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

The 7 in the line "7 [2] ARNOLD, Benedict" is a link to the line above, i.e. "6 [5] ARNOLD, Benedict".
The 6 in that line is a link to the next preceding "5" line, but it doesn't work. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Here is why: I have a 2 cm wide strip down the left edge of the page that supplies the title="Sub-family: ARNOLD-RUSSELL". The strip is positioned by this bit of CSS:

.sub-inner {
position:absolute;
width:20mm;
height:100%;
}
.sub-outer {
position:relative;
}

The strip disables any links that it covers. This can be discovered by using the developer tools. The CSS is at the end of the loaded ODTs.css. Putting a border on the strip to make it visible and playing with the width and positioning will demonstrate that the underlying links are disabled. Links are supposed to be highlighted in yellow on mouse-over.

Actual Results:  
Links covered by the invisible strip are inactivated. Mouseover doesn't produce the yellow highlightng, either.

Expected Results:  
Mouseover should highlight the links and click on them should scroll to the named anchor. Links outside the 2cm strip are unaffected.

Windows: XP Home SP2
Firefox: 2.0.0.11
Safe Mode: No change
IE engine: problem disappears
Opera: No problem
W3C HTML validation: Passed
W3C CSS validation: Inconsequential errors (e.g. Property -moz-border-radius doesn't exist)

Comment 1

[Dav4is]

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