If there is a <pre> inside an <a>, then when any part of the <a> is clicked, only the part above the <pre> gets the :active style (red, dotted border). Note: I think using <pre> (or <div>) inside <a> is bogus html.

Using <pre> or <div> inside an <a> is bogus. whitespace: pre; works fine in Strict layout mode using valid HTML. There is no standards-compliance here. I am not marking this invalid, however, because I am not sure whether this is a noteworthy compatibility issue for the quirks mode. (I don't think it is.)

I meant: "There is no standards-compliance bug here."

Reassigning to Buster and marking future.

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

qa contact updated.

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug 88132 for details.

Build reassigning Buster's bugs to Marc.

Duping aganst a bug with more info, discussion and CCs... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65917 ***

Marking bug duplicate of 65917

Hakan, why did you mark this as a dup of bug 65917? It doesn't look like a dup to me.

Layout is not my area - feel free to reopen. :-)

I don't think this is a dup of bug 65917. Feel free to mark this bug as RESOLVED DONTDOTHAT, though.

This makes focus invisible for many links on http://www.msnbc.com/. Bumping severity to major.

The original bug is gone. The newer testcase is a different bug, which is a duplicate of 65917. The active link state isn't getting propagated downward. Notice how in the first testcase the part outside of the <pre> or <div> will activate the entire link, but the part inside will not. The original issue was that only the top part would get activated.