Bugzilla – Bug 3810
gallery view text shifts around in Firefox
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:39:24 UTC
A quirk of Firefox is to outline active (clicked) links with a dotted line. In the gallery view this causes the text below the artwork to sometimes shift around when the image is clicked. See the link below for a simple CSS solution. http://sonspring.com/journal/removing-dotted-links I tried it and it works. Haven't tested the cross-browser compatibility, but as the article states, it should just be ignored by other browsers.
Andy are you the right person to whom I should assign html/CSS/layout bugs?
Created attachment 1367 [details] add a:active to all slimserver.css in skins This should cover all skins by applying the style fix to all cases of slimserver.css. Skins using skin.css should get the fix via EN
Thanks kdf, feel free to apply and close. :)
applied at change 8628. marking as fixed, please reopen if any issues remain or verify/close.
Still seeing the dotted highlighting in the two skins I tested, Default and Fishbone. I believe the outline:none needs to be applied to the a element instead of a:active. Not sure exactly why that is, but...
before I go redo all of that, is there any chance anyone might throw a fit if they can't see the outline when they insist on using the keyboard for browsing (ie, tab between links)?
give change 8629 a try.
Jim, any update on this bug?
Yes, the change works. One thing that might be consdidered, if the the loss of highlighting links when tabbing is a concern, would be to only apply the outline:none style to the links surrounding the images in the gallery.
s'ok. too much tabbing to be sane anyway :)