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I often find it extremely difficult to open a featured meta post:

Featured on meta.Programmers

Take for example the "Why are we getting so many off topic ..." link. That one spans multiple lines. So I moused over and clicked. But nothing happened.

Can't click...

Turns out I managed to put my cursor directly over the gap (the gap is one pixel high on my computer).

This happens quite frequently for me. It's frustrating because it always takes me a few seconds before I realize why the link isn't opening. It feels as if clicking anywhere inside the bounds of the link should follow the link, but that's not the case.

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    Just a wee bit too much line height, heh.
    – Tim Stone
    Commented Sep 22, 2015 at 22:56
  • I was unable to duplicate this on Firefox. However, I was able to duplicate on Chrome. On Chrome, changing the line-height had no effect on this issue. It appears that Chrome intentionally leaves a single pixel between the lines which is not considered part of the <a>.
    – Makyen
    Commented Mar 29, 2018 at 8:35
  • @Makyen Interesting. I get the behavior both on Chrome on Windows, and on Firefox on Ubuntu
    – Justin
    Commented Mar 29, 2018 at 16:26
  • The testing I did was on Win10 in both Chrome and Firefox. I haven't tried other browsers.
    – Makyen
    Commented Mar 29, 2018 at 22:47
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    Putting a bounty on a request where you want an official response is a rather wasteful use of rep. For better ways to get official attention for feature requests and bug reports, see How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Apr 3, 2018 at 10:44
  • I couldn't reproduce this in Edge, by the way.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Apr 3, 2018 at 10:49
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    Related question: stackoverflow.com/questions/19769485/…. Also, putting the <div class="bulletin-item-content"> inside the <a> fixes it.
    – rchard2scout
    Commented Apr 3, 2018 at 14:55

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