Active tabs in seven stick to the tab on the right

@dmitrig01: Those tabs look unfamiliar to me, What page were they on? I'd like to test that myself.

Never mind @dmitrig01, I was able to reproduce. Looks like the culprit is

span.element-invisible and the way it is positioned absolutely.

Researching...

Can anyone comment on why this element is needed?

Found the fix! Modify a.active to include white-space: pre;

ul.primary li.active a, ul.primary li.active a.active, ul.primary li.active a:active, ul.primary li.active a:visited {
  background-color:#FFFFFF;
  border-color:#C9CAC4;
  white-space:pre;
}

Wonder if that breaks anything. If no one beats me to it. I'll make a patch for this tonight.

Here's a patch that adds this one-liner. I am in the process of testing this for other browsers.

So far it looks like this solves the issue in Firefox 3.5, Chrome 5 (beta)

It didn't break IE7

It didn't solve the issue in Opera 10,

Ideally, It would be good to have another person test this patch and see that it is working fine. But I've tested this in a lot of browsers and am comfortable with the improvement it makes. I'm going to escalate this patch so that it can be better seen by committers / reviewers in hopes that it will be committed.

Don't mark your own patches RTBC, please.

We should compare this solution attempt (looks a bit weird) to #745542: Wrong margin for primary active tab in Seven

Thank you sun for looking at this issue. I saw your comments on #745542: Wrong margin for primary active tab in Seven. We can mark this issue a duplicate if the discussion is flowing better there.

So #745542 has been marked as duplicate of a unknown issue. What's the status of this one?

sorry I meant to mark this issue as the duplicate of #745542: Wrong margin for primary active tab in Seven. Sorry for stepping on the toes of the working going on over there.