62289 - images that are links don't activate

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 65917

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael Nahrath]

build 2000120708, MacOs 9.0.4-D:

If an anchor element contains an image, the defined style rules for ':active'
are not triggered if you click on the image.
If the anchor contains text _and_ an image, klicking the text triggers the
CSS-action for both.

Example:
<a href="uri1">some text <img src="uri2"></a>

You may check this at <http://www.subotnik.net> with the Link "MacFAQ"
aside the banner near the bottom of th page.

Defining the rule for :active, :active IMG, :link:active, a:active, ...
makes no difference.

Comment 1

[Michael Nahrath]

Seems like this is not only a CSS issue.
Even with plain 'HTML 4 transitional'images hover to textcolour if you first
touch them and don't react on activation.

I created a simple testcase to illustrate this:
<http://www.subotnik.net/test/a-img-1.html>

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

cc'ing dbaron as the test case is his

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Verified
Platform: PC
OS: Linux 2.2.16
Mozilla Build: 2000121908 M18 Trunk Build.


I am going ahead and Marking this NEW because I only see a bug reporting
activate problems with text input areas.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Netscape's standard compliance QA team reorganised itself once again, so taking 
remaining non-tables style bugs. Sorry about the spam. I tried to get this done 
directly at the database level, but apparently that is "not easy because of the 
shadow db", "plus it screws up the audit trail", so no can do...

Comment 5

[Michael Kaufmann]

I think this is a duplicate of bug 65917.

Comment 6

[Pierre Saslawsky]

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