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Bug 289542
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
Standards compliance mode: <!-- -- --> in <head> shown as text in body
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(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)
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RESOLVED
INVALID
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(Reporter: aboulart, Unassigned)
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(Keywords: testcase)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Waterlizard/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8 The page shows the line: -- [#BADPASS=ERROR: Invalid password#] [#---#] --> above what should be the page's title: courier 0.37.3 - Administrative Login When looking at the HTML source in Firefox, you can see that the line in question should be part of an HTML comment, but it starts with "--" instead of "<!--". The "<!-- ... -->" comment is actually correct in the original file. If you open the same page with Internet Explorer, the page will render correctly and the HTML source will be valid. So, somewhere along the line, it seems that Firefox swallows the two characters "<!" that open this comment. Note that this also happens with Firefox 1.0 under Linux. FYI, the CGI that generates this HTML is the Courier web admin interface, package courier-webadmin in Debian stable. Every page generated by that CGI is affected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install courier-webadmin debian package -or- 1. Open static copy at http://entry-802.nine.ch/courierwebadmin 2. Notice first line that shouldn't be there Actual Results: I cried. :) Expected Results: Keep HTML comments hidden from me.
Comment 1•19 years ago
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Maybe dupe of Bug 214476 (not sure, since the whole comment appears on the page), but for sure invalid.
Comment 2•19 years ago
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head><title>289542</title><!-- -- --></head> <body></body></html> The comment <!-- -- --> is seen in the body as text, also in DOM Inspector.
OK, I now understand that the "---" inside the comment will screw up the rendering somehow. But why does the "<!" disappear from the HTML source window? I thought it was supposed to display the document's code exactly as received from the server.
Comment 4•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #3) > But why does the "<!" disappear from the HTML source window? I thought it was > supposed to display the document's code exactly as received from the server. Here it displays it. Maybe a bug of FF 0.8 (FF 0.8 is somewhat out-of-date).
(In reply to comment #4) > Here it displays it. Maybe a bug of FF 0.8 (FF 0.8 is somewhat out-of-date). Just tested on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041129 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3.backports.org.1) and it still gives me the below. Unfortunately I can't upgrade to anything newer. I guess it has been fixed in a later version. Thanks for your explanations. <title>courier 0.37.3 - Administrative Login </title> -- [#BADPASS=ERROR: Invalid password#] [#---#] --> </head>
Comment 6•19 years ago
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050408 I´m seeing the bug in the minimal testcase in a current trunk build. The testcase renders in Standards compliance mode, but doesn´t validate: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fattachment.cgi%3Fid%3D180054&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&verbose=1 Complete source of testcase shown in comment #2. <!-- -- --> is the minimal comment producing this behaviour. about HTML comments: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html about SGML comments: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/sgml-primer-comments.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/html-tidy/2000OctDec/0206.html seeing <!-- A -- B --> as SGML comment, ' A ' is inside the SGML comment, ' B ' is outside the SGML comment, and '>' again is inside the SGML comment, so not seen as the end of the html comment. This may be an explanation for the error message from validator, but doesn´t explain why the comment in the <head> is seen as text in the <body>. That´s what I see in the links above, I don´t know much about markup languages.
Keywords: testcase
Summary: opening <! of html comment tag disappears, page not rendered right → Standards compliance mode: <!-- -- --> in <head> shown as text in body
Comment 7•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #6) > explain why the comment in the <head> is seen as text in the <body>. When we come across an unterminated comment (such as <!-- -- -->), we consume it as text (to imitate IE). Note, however, that IE does not follow the specs when parsing comments, so it thinks the comment is terminated. Once we consume the comment as text, it's text in the <head> section, so it gets moved down to the <body>. Note that Firefox 1.0 is also out of date! The bug where <! disappered on unterminated comments was bug 144902 and that was fixed by the checkin for bug 88952. I'm marking this INVALID.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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