Bug 9301 – Invite button for Windows Live Mail Beta is unclickable

• Component: DOM
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

I find it ironic that the "Join Now" button on the email from Microsoft to join Windows Live Mail Beta is unclickable in Safari 2.0.3 (417.9.3) + WebKit r14717 (as well as Firefox 1.5.0.4).

The HTML wraps a <tr> tag with an <a> tag, and expects the <td> elements to respond to click events.

Safari+WebKit (and Firefox 1.5.0.4) both move the <a> tag (and an <img> tag that appears after </a> but before </table>) above the <table> tag.  Use Hixie's Live DOM Viewer for details.

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/

Not surprisingly, this works fine in MSIE 6 on Win XP SP2.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 8689 [details]
Semi-reduced test case with links to live images

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=8689) [edit]
> Semi-reduced test case with links to live images

Seriously, I didn't intend this pun when I wrote the description!

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 8690 [details]
Same semi-reduced test case with local images

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 8691 [details]
Another example of this behavior (congrats page)

[Geoffrey Garen]

Can someone try to figure out how the IE DOM treats the elements?

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can someone try to figure out how the IE DOM treats the elements?

Adding an onclick attribute to the <tr> element that's just inside the <a> element makes this work in Safari and Firefox just like MSIE.  The contents of the onclick attribute should be identical to the contents of the href attribute in the <a> element.

I will attach a new example with the onclick attribute added.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 8722 [details]
Fixed first example by adding onclick attribute to <tr> element

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 8723 [details]
Fixed second example by adding onclick attribute to <tr> element

This looks better than Attachment 8722 [details] since it has the original image URLs in it.

[Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders]]

We still don't have the old IE behaviour, but we do now have all browsers having identical behaviour through the specification of the HTML parser. -> INVALID.