65692 - nested tags deactivate links

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 64622

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Casey Perkins]

I notice on earthlink that some of the links in Mozilla displayed with an
"I-beam" text-editing pointer and were not clickable as links. Netscape 4 had no
problem with the page.
I looked at the code and experimented some. Here is an example of the code on
the earthlink page that displayed improperly:

<font face="Helvetica, Arial" size="-2">
<a href="/broadband/index.html" title="Residential DSL"><font
onmouseover="this.style.color='#CC0033'"onmouseout="this.style.color=''">Residential
DSL</font>
</a>
</font>

This has the effect of making the link NOT working as a link.
There was certainly no need to nest additional FONT tags within the A tags, when
FONT tags already existed. That being said, it would be nice if Mozilla was more
fault tolerant when it comes to poor coding choices.
It is not just nested FONT tags that produce this outcome; please note
http://www.caseyperkins.com/nested.html
On this page, nested b tags and span tags also produce the same undesirable
effect, rendering the links useless.
This always happens when a tag encloses A tags which themselves enclose another
of the first kind. It does not seem to happen under other circumstances.

Comment 1

[timeless]

this was fixed recently, please be sure to use current nightly builds and 
include buildid when using bugzilla

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is most likely a duplicate of a bug that was fixed as of the 2001-01-12
builds.  If you are using a build later than that and still seeing the problem,
please reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64622 ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

vrfy dupe of bug 64622.
No link found in: <font><a href="aaa.html"><font>aaa</font></a></font>