Bug 17677 – text in the anchor tag is applying incorrect styling from font tag

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: CSS

[jasneet]

I Steps:
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II Issue:
In Opera, the default color of an <a> underline is blue.

In FF, if the font-face is NOT Verdana, then the underline color of <a> is the same as the text's color. If the font-face is Verdana, then the default color of the underline is blue.

In Safari, the underline color of <a> is just the same as the text's color.

In IE, there were no underline in the links because the text-decoration in the <font> was set to none.

III Conclusion: It looks like FF2/3, Safari are just not applying the text-decoration from the font tag on the text in the anchor tag, but they are applying the other stylings from the font tag.

IV Nightly tested: 30628

[jasneet]

Created attachment 19541 [details]
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[Robert Blaut]

The CSS 2.1 specification says: "The 'text-decoration' property on descendant elements cannot have any effect on the decoration of the ancestor." [http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#propdef-text-decoration] So if the ancestor <a> have default underline set its descendant text-decoration property have no effect on underline effect. Check below test case:

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!doctype%20HTML%3E%3Cspan%20style%3D%22text-decoration%3Aunderline%22%3Etest%20test%20%3Cspan%20style%3D%22text-decoration%3Anone%3B%20color%3A%20red%3B%22%3E%20this%20should%20be%20underlined%20despite%20text-decoration%3A%20none%3B%20%3C%2Fspan%3E%20test%0A

Bug report is INVALID.