454649 - CSS a:visited not showing up properly in Firefox any of the new builds

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rick Kasparek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Understood that CSS must be listed in the a:link, a:visited, a:hover order - this is correct. IE shows the 'line-through' properly. Firefox and oddly Google's Chrome do not. In fact - no matter what you do for the a:visited CSS - Firefox and Chrome do not show it. Only IE does.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write CSS document that has a specific a:visited attribute - in my case text-decoration: line-through;
2. test with IE, Firefox, and Chrome.
3. wierd
Actual Results:  
EVERY time - the CSS is ignored for the a:visited.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080910064831 Minefield/3.1b1pre

a:visited {text-decoration: line-through} seems to work normally here.

Comment 2

[Rick Kasparek]

Have been checking a new web design in Firefox (3.01), Google Chrome (0.2.149.29) and Microsquish Internet Exploder v.7.07530.11. I have an xhtml page, which in the header calls for:
<link href="mystylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
In the stylesheet, the a:visited in the #mainContent container is described as:

 #mainContent a:visited {text-decoration: line-through;}

Comment 3

[Rick Kasparek]

(In reply to comment #2)
...sorry I forgot to add that it displays properly in IE, but not in Chrome or Firefox. The a:link, a:hover work fine.

Comment 4

[Rick Kasparek]

(In reply to comment #2)
This may help... in Chrome - it displays properly in the 'normal' window but not in the 'incognito' window... It still does not display properly in Firefox.

So...
IE - okay
Chrome normal window - okay
Firefox - improper
Chrome incognito - improper

Comment 5

[Rick Kasparek]

For what its worth... Safari 3.1.2 displays correctly

Comment 6

[Rick Kasparek]

Duh... PILOT ERROR. It was a simple mistake and I apologize. Turns out the history file was not checked in the browser options. Firefox is fine (we all knew that)!

Please close this bug.

Comment 7

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

Resolving per previous comment.