Closed Bug 105573 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

smartfilterwhere.com - <a />foo</a> link slash href html

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: dsmutil, Assigned: bc)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [EMPTY-TAG]) 

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    2001101117

When a link has the format
   <A HREF="/index.html"/> linktext </a>

The "linktext" is not a link. However,
   <A HREF="/index.html"> linktext </a>

works fine.The first example works fine in Communicator 4.77.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Go to URL above or create a simple HTML document with:
<HTML>
<a href=".."/>This is a link.</a>
</HTML>
Keywords: 4xp
Summary: 4xp: A HREF= link with trailing slash / (before >) results in missing link → [quirks]A HREF= link with trailing slash / (before >) results in missing link
This would require a large rearchitecting of the parser.  Since <a href="foo" />
means <a href="foo"></a> we are parsing this correctly for XML documents and
XHTML.  In HTML this is an invalid construct that people seem to feel it is cool
to use.

Over to evangelism; Harish has explicitly said on multiple occasions that he
will not be changing this behavior.
Assignee: harishd → bclary
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Parser → English: US
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: moied → zach
Hardware: PC → All
Version: other → unspecified
Keywords: 4xp
Priority: -- → P4
Summary: [quirks]A HREF= link with trailing slash / (before >) results in missing link → smartfilterwhere.com - <a />foo</a>
Whiteboard: [EMPTY-TAG]
I'm adding some words on the summary line so this is easier to find (to reduce
dups).
Summary: smartfilterwhere.com - <a />foo</a> → smartfilterwhere.com - <a />foo</a> link slash href html
looks fixed to me.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
You're right. I just checked it a week or two ago and it wasn't fixed so I sent
another e-mail to webmaster. -Dan
Verified
2002022703/WinXP
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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