Closed Bug 273855 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

firefox (and mozilla web browser) incorrectly handles <textarea/> tag

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: HTML Parser
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162653

People

(Reporter: nexus, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: testcase) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

if I use collapsed notation of empty <textarea></textarea> tag (<textarea/>,
firefox handles it as "not closed" tag
and throws in rest of whole xhtml code as text

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. uses <textarea /> anywhere in html code
2. try to display it with firefox or mozilla web browser
3. see and try to validate the page at w3.org

Actual Results:  
I've seen a textarea element with a rest of my html code in it
(http://www.smoula.net/download/bug.jpg)


Expected Results:  
wanted to see an empty textarea element ;)

maybe a bug in gecko
I've also tried this on cvs version (yesterday evening - 12. Dec 2004) with
similar results
Assignee: firefox → nobody
Component: General → Layout: Form Controls
Keywords: testcase
OS: Linux → All
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: firefox.general → core.layout.form-controls
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Assignee: nobody → parser
Component: Layout: Form Controls → HTML: Parser
QA Contact: core.layout.form-controls → mrbkap

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162653 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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