507701 - wrapping <li> in <a> does not make entire <li> clickable (using html5 doctype)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Mike Taylor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

According to the html5 spec, the <a> tag can wrap block-level elements. In Firefox 3.5.1, this works except for the <li> element. Instead, it treats it as if the <a> tag was inside the <li>, wrapping inline elements. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to test page: http://miketaylr.com/test/block_anchors.html
2. Hover over the first (green) list item.

Actual Results:  
Only the inline text within the list item is clickable/linked.

Expected Results:  
The entire block level list item should be clickable, just like the <div> at the top of the page.

All other modern browsers behave inline with the spec. In the latest Minefield nightly, the behavior is reproduced until you turn on the html5 parser.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Well, yes, this should be fixed with the HTML5 parser. Cf. bug 514122.