[thelist] mouse goes nuts...

[Brian Cummiskey]

Chris Johnston wrote:
> On 6/10/06, Jono <jono at charlestonwebsolutions.com> wrote:
>   
>> I think there may be more to it than Windows.  I encountered the very same
>> problem a while back on an article on mezzoblue, here:
>> http://tinyurl.com/zdgkr
>>
>> See the last two comments on the page above.  I posted a link to a
>> QuickTime
>> movie showing the blinking cursor.  It still happens for me in Firefox
>> v1.5.0.4  but only on that page.  I have not found another page that
>> causes
>> the crazy mouse?  If I hover over the very bottom of any of the links in
>> the
>> body, I see the crazy mouse.  A closer look at the page's CSS might reveal
>> something, but it's way deep on a list of To-Dos.
>>
>> Anyhow check out the page and QT movie if you want.
>>
>>
>>     
> I see it as well on the last two links at the very bottom of the Mezzoblue
> page. It happens when you just touch the very bottom of the link (barely
> touch it). I think the problem may be with the underline on the link. As a
> straight link, it is underlined, however, in a:hover, the underline is
> removed. This may change the size of the target for the link. So what
> happens is that the a:hover target for the cursor is actually smaller, thus
> causing the crazy mouse effect since you mouse is no longer in the target
> zone to activate the a:hover affect and it moves back to the regular link,
> which makes it slightly bigger, thus activating the a:hover again and so on.
>
> That is just my initial guess.
>
> Chris
>
>   

(not trimming as all is important to this discussion I think)

Chris, The underline may very well be the cause.  On the page I was 
having the problem with, the a's DO have an underline on them as well, 
but it is padded down to act as a separator to the element below it.