Closed Bug 256818 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

bad behavior when parsing HTML comments

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: HTML Parser
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: petrovicky, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040819 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040819 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M2)

let's say we have a following comment:
<!--<div id="listing"><a href="">&laquo; Previous 20</a> -- <a href="">Next 20
&raquo;</a></div>-->

mozilla decides that characters -- indicate ending of a comment, then seeks for
next ">" and makes the comment end.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:


Actual Results:  
comment ends after <a href=""> (before "Next 20"). "Next 20
&raquo;</a></div>-->" is displayed.

Expected Results:  
comment ends after -->, nothing is displayed
-- *is* the end of the comment.

You cannot have -- in the middle of a comment.  See
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#idx-HTML

Mozilla's behavior is correct.  Bug is invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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