95186 - :hover is activated by selecting a link with the keyboard

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Laurent Martelli]

If you at http://lolo.bearteam.org/bug.html and cycle through the link with TAB,
 the first time you are on the first link, it is green instead of pale blue. If
you go to the 2nd link (TAB) and then go back to the 1st one (Shift+TAB) then
it's blue.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

The problem here it's that to the :hover is being activated sometimes by the
keyboard, and not only by a mouse over.

The :focus isn't a problem at all, so changing summary from ":hover and :focus"
to ":focus is activated by selecting a link with the keyboard"

As I don't think that this is a dup of bug 78765 or bug 20022, I'm marking it as
New and moving to Event Handling. Also changing OS to all as this happens to me
in win98, Build 2001081303

Comment 2

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Really reassigning to Event Handling...

Comment 3

[Eric A. Meyer (dead account)]

Shouldn't the summary actually say ":hover is activated by selecting a link with
a keyboard?"  After all, you'd expect :focus to be activated due to keyboard
tabbing.

Comment 4

[Alfonso Martinez]

Yes, of course.  
Updating summary

Comment 5

[Eric Hodel]

*** Bug 99088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think it makes sense to apply the :hover style on tabbing to a link.  The
problem isn't that :hover applies to tabbed-to links, but that it only applies
if you tab *from* certain other objects (such as other links).  See also bug
140655, "caret browsing: :hover effect tests old caret location instead of new
location".

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: similar testcase where hover, focus effects aren't mutually exclusive

Comment 8

[Pham]

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