I have a page which positions an h1 element in a watermark by positioning two div elements at the same location, placing the h1 in the lower div and making the text light gray and extremely large. With the 2/15 and 2/17 builds, hovering over any links in the front layer causes the h1 behind it to change from gray to black - but only beneath the link itself. The rest of the h1 keeps its original color. Additionally, switching away from the browser to another window that covers the watermark, then switching back, will cause the same effect - the portion of the h1 that was covered is now black instead of gray. Further investigation shows that while simply placing text in the div does not show this problem, placing it in a p element inside the div does. I can also get a similar effect by rapidly moving the browser window partly offscreen then back into view several times. While this is more difficult to reproduce, it also seems to occur even without any div elements or positioning at all, the only style rule being a color change. Finally, and I'm not sure this last part is related or not, the first link in the list reverts to black instead of the defalt link color after it exits :hover. 2/12 build was fine; first saw on 2/15 build. I'm testing this on Windows 2000.

Attaching a test case with positioned div elements, an h1 in the lower one, and links in the upper one.

Attaching screen shot of problem.

Argh. Just noticed it happens with the text straight in the div if you include a <br> (i.e. <div id="#watermark">Line 1<br>Line 2</div> has the problem but <div id="#watermark">One long line</div> does not.)

Marking dependency on bug that will likely fix this.

Looks good in Win2k 2002021903. Thanks!

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works fine on the latest build Id: 2002022003 Platform : WIn2K. closing the bug

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