533653 - hover pseudo-class cannot be bound to a class in css in HTML 4.01 Transitional

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197686

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.30 Safari/532.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

Mozilla fails to render hover states of classnames in css.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a page in HTML 4.01 Transitional
2. define a class with a hover state
Actual Results:  
Hover state doesn't activate

Expected Results:  
Hover state should activate

See the blog post for a working example of problem code: http://jpgrace.com/blog/2009/12/firefox-bug-hover-cannot-bind-to-a-classname-with-css-in-html-4-01-transitional/

Comment 1

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I've tested this in multiple versions of FF and on both Mac and PC.  All versions of the Firefox browser exhibit this bug.

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

html 4.01 transitional without full url triggers quirks mode
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/#handling

In that case it is a known behavior:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla%27s_Quirks_Mode