570647 - money.cnn.com: Links unclickable (float:left followed by position:relative)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[j.j.]

This is the CSS part of bug 570309, which is unrelated to HTML5 parsing.
See bug 570309 comment 6.
May be related with bug 427088.	

money.cnn.com  links on the left don't work (scroll down a bit).

Comment 1

[j.j.]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[j.j.]

Note:  money.cnn.com  is in quirks mode, but the mozilla bug is independent from that. So I wrote a strict mode testcase.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is the right behavior per CSS spec.  See CSS 2.1 section E.2.  The float is painted in step 5; the rel pos block is painted in step 8 (so on top of the float).  If you give the block a background, this becomes very obvious.  So you can't click on the float, since it's behind the block.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that Webkit has the same exact behavior on the attached testcase, by the way, for the same reasons.