Bug 192623 – Links in SVG are broken (no navigation)

• Component: SVG
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Peter Krautzberger]

Created attachment 357122 [details]
minimal example of two svgs with links

In Safari 12.1, activating <a>'s inside SVG content no longer causes navigation to the target.

Both iOS and MacOS are affected; on MacOS using "open link in new tab" from the context menu still works.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Can you clarify what the expected behavior is? Are you observing a change in behavior from some earlier version?

When I click on the first circle in any build of Safari that I tried, nothing happens. When I click on the second one, the page navigates to developer.mozilla.com.

[Peter Krautzberger]

> Can you clarify what the expected behavior is? Are you observing a change in behavior from some earlier version?

Thanks for following up and my apologies - I should've checked the sample I uploaded better (rather than expecting this to work as in my original sample). 


Expected: The first (relative) link should change the URL (to add #target) and thus trigger the CSS (add a red border around the second heading). 

Actual: the URL does not change. 

Affected: Safari 12.1 (both iOS and MacOS), WebKitGTK+ 2.22.4

As you kindly pointed out, the external link does work correctly (it actually didn't for me originally because of an error on my part - sorry for the sloppiness).

Thanks again for your help.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Thank you. I can reproduce the issue in Safari 12.0.2 (the latest shipping version at this time).

Looks like the same issue as bug 148477.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148477 ***

[Peter Krautzberger]

Ah, I had not found that issue - sorry!