47291 - CSS: Priority of a:link over specified class=

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael Marxmeier]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000801
BuildID:    2000080113

Mozilla seems to prefer style definitions from a:link
over ones specified in class=
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a style definition for a:link and a.xyz
2. <a href="..." class="xyz" ... >
3. mozilla preferes a:link over a.xyz definitions to render the link

Expected Results:  Good question.
At least other browsers seem to priorize a.xyz over a:link.

Comment 1

[Tomer Brisker]

Confiriming, changing OS/Plat to all in hopes someone who knows the exact css
specs knows which should hold precedence.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Need a testcase.

Sounds like an INVALID bug, since it should depend on order (pseudo-classes and
normal classes have the same specificity).

Comment 3

[Marc Attinasi]

Attachment: Testcase: showing correct cascade for A:link vs. a.classname

Comment 4

[Marc Attinasi]

Marking INVALID: testcase shows that Mozill ais cascading correctly.

Comment 5

[Michael Marxmeier]

Thanks for the clarification. As said initially it was not clear
to me what the correct behaviour is. I just noticed that NS and IE
did display it differently.

Comment 6

[Christine Hoffman]

Adding 'verifyme' keyword

Comment 7

[Michael Marxmeier]

To clarify the difference, i added a test case
which behaves differently between NS and Mozilla.

Comment 8

[Michael Marxmeier]

Attachment: Demonstrates different behaviour between NS and Mozilla

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking 
remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done 
directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the 
shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...

Comment 10

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED