Checkboxes in hyperlinks are not working anymore

JWVermeer — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 16:00:55 GMT

Hi, in our application we have used this html for ages:

<a href="xyz"><input type="checkbox" value="abc">Text for checkbox</a>.

This has always worked perfectly, that is, when i clicked on the checkbox it was checked and when i clicked on the text, the hyperlink was executed. On Chrome, Edge and Brave that's still the way it works.

However, since the last Firefox update on Windows 11, the checkbox is not checked anymore when i click on it. Instead, the hyperlink is executed. And that's strange, because when i navigate above the checkbox, the mouse changes from a hand (indicating a link) to a pointer (indicating input).

The only work-around I have found, is to shift-click on the checkbox, however, there are hundreds of these hyperlink-checkboxes in a huge tree-structure in which the users can navigate. It's no option for the users to do hundreds of shift-clicks.

Does anyone know how i can fix this? Or is it a Firefox problem?

Re: Checkboxes in hyperlinks are not working anymore

casperschipper — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:22:20 GMT

Yes I can confirm we have the same issue with our website.

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