Since :before and :after should, I think, work just as events do on child elements. That is, events sent to the :before in <a><:before>pseudo-text</:before>more-text</a> should work just as those sent to em in: <a><em>em-text</em>more-text</a> In the former case, links to not work. Clicking or hovering over pseudo-text shows no link behavior (see above URL). However, the latter case works. I think they should both work like the latter case since :before and :after create a new first-child and last-child in a formatting sense.

So what is the situation with this bug? David's example is great in that it points out inconsistet behaviour. Also, XML can have empty elements (no content even allowed). If such an element happend to be a link element, for example, the link would be unusable if this bug was not fixed. Simply because of this limitation on XML I even considered setting the severity to major... Wouldn't it be simple to fix this? Just pass on the events from the generated content to its effective parent element?

I hate doing this, but... There is a really small patch attached that fixes this problem, so what is taking so long? Perhaps more importantly, why is there not a target milestone, I think M11 would be resonable? I'll set it to M11 now, yell at me if I should not be touching target milestone fields...

*** Bug 5349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug 5349 is the same problem applied to alt text of broken images in links; since alt text is internally treated as generated content this is the same problem.

Changed CreateGeneratedFrameFor() to set the parent object and the document object of the generated content

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