Bug 228618

Summary: Clicking an HTMLLinkElement should not trigger a navigation
Product: WebKit Reporter: Chris Dumez <cdumez>
Component: DOMAssignee: Chris Dumez <cdumez>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: achristensen, changseok, darin, esprehn+autocc, ews-watchlist, ggaren, gyuyoung.kim, sam, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#htmllinkelement
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Chris Dumez
Reported 2021-07-29 16:07:02 PDT
Clicking an HTMLLinkElement should not trigger a navigation because HTMLLinkElement has no activation behavior as per the HTML specification: - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#htmllinkelement Firefox and Chrome follow the specification here.
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Patch (11.70 KB, patch)
2021-07-29 16:10 PDT, Chris Dumez
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Chris Dumez
Comment 1 2021-07-29 16:10:44 PDT
EWS
Comment 2 2021-07-30 09:41:46 PDT
Committed r280479 (240114@main): <https://commits.webkit.org/240114@main> All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug and clearing flags on attachment 434583 [details].
Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 3 2021-07-30 09:42:18 PDT
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