Bug 37567 – REGRESSION: hyperlink text styled with ::first-letter text-transform shows up in wrong color

• Component: Layout and Rendering
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[sideshowbarker]

r57509

1. visit http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/figcaption.html#figcaption
2. click and follow the "Phrasing content" hyperlink
3. go back to http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/figcaption.html#figcaption

You should notice that the letter "P" is rendered in the default, non-visited-link color, while the remaining "hrasing content" text shows up as expected in visited-link color.

relevant source excerpt:

          <p class="elem-mdl">
      <span><a href="terminology.html#phrasing-content">phrasing content</a></span>

accompanying CSS excerpt:

  .elem-mdl::first-letter {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  }

I get expected behavior (all of the hyperlink text in visited-link color) in stable Safari and in all other browsers tested (Minefield, latest Chrome dev-channel for OSX).

[Dave Hyatt]

Created attachment 53375 [details]
This fixes the bug.

I need to write a test case.

I noticed a couple of other bugs with pseudo elements and :visited though besides this one.  I'll fix those in a followup.

[Dave Hyatt]

I'd like to write a good test for this, but

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24021

blocks me.  I'm going to land testless and then see if I can't get 24021 ferried into the tree (the patch in the bug looks good to me).  After that lands, pseudo element tests will be possible.

[Dave Hyatt]

Created attachment 53451 [details]
Patch

[Anders Carlsson]

Comment on attachment 53451 [details]
Patch

r=me

[Dave Hyatt]

Fixed in r57657.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This has caused bug 38891.