WTF is going on with my journal's CSS?

[unixronin]

Kindly look at my last three posts.  Note that all three are styling blockquotes in different ways.  The templates for all three are theoretically the same.  Only the first and third of the three are rendering correctly behaving correctly when the quoted, linked text is moused over.

Whiskey tango foxtrot, over.

Update:

Above text edited slightly for clarity and to correct a minor misstatement.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Um? They all look the same to me, in Firefox on WinXP: they're indented on both sides, have a light blue background, and the first line of each paragraph is further indented.

What are you seeing?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Actually, I mis-stated slightly. There's two different behaviors there, not three.

If you mouse over the quoted text on this post quoting James Nicoll (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/490452.html), the text becomes underlined (and, if you haven't visited it yet, becomes highlighted), and you get a "hyperlink available" cursor (for Firefox, a pointing hand). If you have already visited it, it does not highlight, but still underlines when moused over. That, for a linked blockquote, is correct behavior as defined in my CSS. This one (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/490842.html) does the same thing. But the quoted link text in this one talking about Salman al-Oadah () doesn't do anything at all when moused over. For me at least, it neither highlights nor underlines.
Similarly, this post about the bungled post-9/11 cleanup (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/485904.html) highlights and underlines properly, but this one about "burning salt water" (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/486427.html) doesn't.
They should all act the same. But for some reason they're not doing so.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Er ... bungled a link there. The Salman al-Oadah post is actually here (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/490553.html).

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

They all appear to render correctly for me (using IE6.0 on WinXPPro SP2). They all look the same, at any rate.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

See my reply to janetmiles, above. The text is rendering correctly, but the mouse-over behavior is inconsistent.

[glitch25.livejournal.com]

LJ has been having intermittent issues over the past weekish with styles doing funky things. I would imagine this may be related

[dafydd.livejournal.com]

After reading your updates, and doing my own testing, I find the behavior as you've described. I'm using SeaMonkey on Mac OSX. The James Nicholl (sp?) article, which I visited, gets an underlined link indication. The two more recent posts, with their three sets of block quoting, all highlight the entire quote with the "link available" pointer. I'm deliberately not clicking through, in order to help continue testing.

[anda.livejournal.com]

For my part, I loathe extensive quoting which is all a link. Quote plain and put a link at the end or beginning or something, or put the long quote behind a cut (summarize if you want outside), or something else.

Not that this has anything to do with CSS specifically, eh?