3261 - View Source collapses linear whitespace sequences

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P4)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

The document contains the following:

  <STYLE TYPE="text/css">

[...]

--> <!--       --> <!-- -- >

  .xf { color: yellow; background: red none; }

  </STYLE>

...in the HEAD. The View Source displays the following:

  <STYLE TYPE="text/css">

[...]

--><!-- --><!-- -->.xf { color: yellow; background: red none; }

  </STYLE>

I believe this is a parser bug that is also causing bug #2781.

(Note that viewsource gets a lot else wrong in that STYLE block, I am
merely quoting the end part because that is what I noticed first.)

Comment 1

[Jan Carpenter]

reassigning qa contact to chrisd

Comment 2

[harishd]

Lowering Priority to P3 and setting a M5 milestone

Comment 3

[harishd]

setting milestone to M4

Comment 4

[harishd]

Works now..  Leaving it for QA to close the bug.

Comment 5

[Christine Hoffman]

Marking FIXED per engineer's 4/6 comments

Comment 6

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified fixed.

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

At the test uri given, the following markup:

<DIV>       Some          Markup         Here       </DIV>

...gets displayed like this:

<DIV>       Some Markup Here </DIV>

...in ViewSource.

This collapsing of linear whitespace only appears to occur in lines. That is,
vertical whitespace (line feeds, carriage returns) are not collapsed.
Furthermore, the whitespace collapsing does not occur after start tags or in
comments. It _does_ occur in CDATA sections (eg, STYLE element content).

Comment 8

[harishd]

Setting milestone to M6 and priority to P4.

Comment 9

[Christine Hoffman]

Please clear FIXED resolution if this is still a bug.

Comment 10

[rickg]

Fixed by latest update to parsing engine.