56228 - only first part of link gets :focus and :active (<a> containing <div>)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P2)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

If there is a <pre> inside an <a>, then when any part of the <a> is clicked, 
only the part above the <pre> gets the :active style (red, dotted border).

Note: I think using <pre> (or <div>) inside <a> is bogus html.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: Valid Strict test case (works fine)

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Using <pre> or <div> inside an <a> is bogus. whitespace: pre; works fine in
Strict layout mode using valid HTML.

There is no standards-compliance here.

I am not marking this invalid, however, because I am not sure whether this is a
noteworthy compatibility issue for the quirks mode. (I don't think it is.)

Comment 4

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

I meant:
"There is no standards-compliance bug here."

Comment 5

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to Buster and marking future.

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's
care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

Comment 7

[bsharma]

qa contact updated.

Comment 8

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

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.

Comment 9

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Build reassigning Buster's bugs to Marc.

Comment 10

[Håkan Waara]

Duping aganst a bug with more info, discussion and CCs...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65917 ***

Comment 11

[Moied]

Marking bug duplicate of 65917

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

Hakan, why did you mark this as a dup of bug 65917?  It doesn't look like a dup
to me.

Comment 13

[Håkan Waara]

Layout is not my area - feel free to reopen. :-)

Comment 14

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't think this is a dup of bug 65917.  Feel free to mark this bug as
RESOLVED DONTDOTHAT, though.

Comment 15

[Jesse Ruderman]

This makes focus invisible for many links on http://www.msnbc.com/.  Bumping
severity to major.

Comment 16

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase based on msnbc.com: focus on second link is invisible

Comment 17

[Aaron Kaluszka]

The original bug is gone.  The newer testcase is a different bug, which is a
duplicate of 65917.  The active link state isn't getting propagated downward. 
Notice how in the first testcase the part outside of the <pre> or <div> will
activate the entire link, but the part inside will not.  The original issue was
that only the top part would get activated.