54801 - Cursor changes to "I-beam" when over HTML anchor if %block; content

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[John Morrison]

Overview Description:

  The cursor will change from pointer to the "I-beam" when mouseover
  some text that is inside a %block; element, inside the <A href>

  e.g. <A HREF="foo"><div>just some text inside DIV</div></a><br>

  What is expected, is for the cursor to change to the "hand", giving
  feedback that clicking on this link will send you to that URL (by
  convention).  [Yes, this is invalidly formed content, but ...).

  Not entirely sure if this is parser, or content model, or higher up,
  but starting with parser.


Build Date & Platform Bug Found:
  20000929nn MN6 branch win2k,linux,mac  and debug trunk build 09/29



TESTCASE
Mouse over the links below. The cursor changes to a text caret, not the hand,
when the text is inside a block-level element. (Yes, illegal, but ...)<br><br>

<A HREF="foo"><div>just some text inside DIV</div></a><br>

<A HREF="foo"><P>just some text inside P</P></a><br>

<A HREF="foo"><H4>just some text inside H4</H4></a><br>

<A HREF="foo"><SPAN>just some text inside SPAN (ok)</SPAN></a><br><br>

<A HREF="foo">just some text (ok)</a><br>

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Attachment: short test case for <a><block>text</block></a>

Comment 2

[rickg]

Tom, can you take a look please?

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

This seems to be mostly cosmetic. Mouseover link updates the statusbar 
correctly, and clicking the link works as well. :link and :visited styles work, 
but I do not think that :hover and :active work.

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working 
on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another
known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way 
-- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

Comment 4

[djk]

I just tried the attached testcase with nightly 2000102420 on Win98se and the
cursor changes to the hand over every link.

Fixed?

Comment 5

[Jan Carpenter]

verified fixed on these builds: 
2000-10-26-13-MN6 : win32 
2000-10-26-12-MN6 : linux
2000-10-26-13-MN6 : mac 
 

Comment 6

[Jan Carpenter]

changing resolution to Fixed

Comment 7

[Jan Carpenter]

...and marking verified