User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: Create a button element, set overflow to visible and position to relative, append an absolutely positioned child to the button element. In the child create a child anchor element that when hovered changes color with href attribute to any location. Position child div absolutely, top: 100%, left: 100%;. Attached to this report is a codepen demonstration, just open index.html in a browser. Actual results: Hovering on link does not change text color, clicking on link does nothing. Expected results: On hover link should change color, on click link should redirect to href location.

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Buttons do not propagate mouse events to their contents in general, on purpose. This has nothing to do with the absolute positioning bit.