Closed Bug 316767 Opened 19 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Dotted highlight around links is too persistent

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 418521

People

(Reporter: mannheim89, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5 A click on a link brings up a dotted rectangle hightlight around the link region. This dotted rectangle remains visible when it is more appropriate for it to disappear. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.mozilla.org, and right-click on the red lizard's head to bring up the contextual menu for this link. 2. Select "Save link as ... ", and then cancel the resulting Save dialog box. 3. Look at the lizard's head (the Mozilla icon). Actual Results: An ugly dotted rectangle extends around the image, to the left-hand edge of the screen. Expected Results: The ugly dotted rectangle should disappear once it has fulfilled its purpose of indicating that a link has been clicked on. It should be transient. This is not restricted to image links: the same happens with the text links at the bottom of the page. It also happens in other contexts. Try http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/default.stm and click on "Day in pictures". On the next page, click "Next" to display the next picture. The dotted rectangle remains around the "Next" link. In IE 6.0 on Win XP_sp2, these rectangles are not drawn, resulting in a cleaner appearance.
Actually, the focus ring shouldn't appear at all in this case. Thanks for reporting.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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