Closed Bug 1972 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

Link underlining has wrong colour

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect, P2)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout
Platform:
x86
Windows 95
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: joe, Assigned: peterl-retired)

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Details

Look at the links at the bottom of Slashdot - the underlining appears to take the colour of the text around it, instead of the underlined text. While it looks good, I don't think this is desired behaviour - look at www.news.com for another display of this.
Assignee: kipp → peterl
This may very well be because the link underlining is not paying attention to the current font colour, but instead what the link colour is in the <body> tag. At least, that's what seems to be happening on the pages on which I've observed it.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Actually, this is working in 100% conformance with the CSS1 spec. The 'underline' style comes from an enclosing <A> tag, while the text color is set by an enclosed <FONT color=> tag. The enclosed FONT tag sets the color of the text, the decoration color comes from the same tag as specified the decoration. I'm not rejecting the bug because this is a backwards compatibility issue. I'm looking for a good way to resolve it while keeping CSS behavior within definition.
Idea: make the CSS underline style colour the same as that specified by the <FONT color=...> tag by default, and if it's subsequently changed by other CSS, it's perfectly fine.
*** Bug 2066 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 2262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Fixed. Now ony <FONT color=> resets the color of enclosing text decorations.
QA Contact: 4130
assigning qa_contact field.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
verified-fixed with 99034 build
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