Webkit bug with `:hover` and multiple adjacent-sibling selectors

Question

Safari and Chrome, as well as Opera and Firefox, can handle the :hover pseudo-class and adjacent-sibling selectors:

a:hover + div {}

This works.

However, when another adjacent-sibling is added:

div:hover + a + div {}

Webkit falls apart.

However, if you first hover over <a> and then hover over the <div> the style is applied as it ought to.

I'm further confounded, because if you add:

div:hover ~ div {}

with or without a style declared, it starts working as it ought to.

Demo

I see this problem in:

• Google Chrome 15.0.874.121
• Safari 5.1.1

for OS X.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

you can overcome Webkit's pseudo classes + general/adjacent sibling selectors bugs by faking animation on the body element:

body { -webkit-animation: bugfix infinite 1s; }

@-webkit-keyframes bugfix { 
  from { padding: 0; } 
  to { padding: 0; } 
}

you can check it out here: http://jsfiddle.net/jalbertbowdenii/ds2yY/1/