Red text rollover.

[rrneck]

I'm getting random red text when I roll over it, and it's not a link (with Firefox but not IE).

Anybody else?

[tekisui]

1. Roll over what?

[Lex]

2. IT

you know, "it"

[HopeHoops]

3. Beethoven?

:shrug:

[rrneck]

6. Plain old text, no link. nt

[NYC_SKP]

4. Any text with a link in DU turns red for me. nt

[NYC_SKP]

9. Testing a theory...

Touch this text, it turns red.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Another Test.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country."

[SidDithers]

11. Both those are red for me on rollover...nt

Edit: FF3.0.11 here

Sid

[TahitiNut]

12. Yes, when folks cut'n'paste a bracketed 'A' ("[A]") from a news story ...

... it causes that "red-on-rollover" effect.

[NYC_SKP]

14. Awwww, You Told!

Just typing an a or an A between brackets before the text makes it red on rollover...

I viewed the source code for that marijuana article and found the culprit...

:toast:

[TahitiNut]

15. It's fairly common for news stories to make quotes more readable using '[A]' or '[An]' ...

... indefinite articles within brackets to indicate they're not part of the actual quote. When DUers cut'n'paste the text from news stories without editing the bracketed items, all kinds of "unintended consequences" can arise. The bracketed item often gets converted to the corresponding HTML by the DU software. This is just one of the minor ones.

[dysfunctional press]

5. only on links.

with firefox. i don't use ie at all.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

7. I've had it happen to me...............

the quote from the article in this thread does it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5877153

My guess is that the quote was cut-n-pasted from the online article. Maybe it has something to do with the way the source material is encoded? I'm just guessing here.

[The River]

8. Yes, Once

here at DU
I think it may have been some messed up code
that made foxfire think the text (it) was part of a link
without actually being click-able to the link?

[NYC_SKP]

13. It's a trick...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

:patriot: