368564 - Problem with SPAN background when paragraphs are inside it.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Manix Rock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

In the following code the letters A and C have a blue background, while the B letter has a white background, tough they should all have a blue background:

<span style="background: #AADDFF; color: red;">A<p><br></p>B<p><br></p>C</span>

I realize it's not a conventional use of the tags, but it's the best way I have found to force IE to display contigious BR tags inside a IFRAME (a more complicated setup, long story :P), and now have run into this problem here.
P.S.: I couldn't find a better place to post it then in General, but it might be better to have special(DOM?) section for these kind of bugs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy the code in the Details section in a new .html file
2. open it in a firefox window
3. look at it
Actual Results:  
The background is white for the "B" letter.

Expected Results:  
The background should be blue for all three letters.

Comment 1

[Manix Rock]

A clearer cause of the problem might be this section:

<span style="background: #AADDFF; color: red;">A<p>m</p>B<p>n</p>C<p>p</p>D</span>

I see the A and D have a blue background, while all the other letters have a white background.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Attachment: testcase from comment 0 & 1

Comment 3

[Daniel.S]

You're right, p inside span is higly invalid.

However, we're using quirks mode here and that should more or less resemble what authors intended (or rather, what IE and the others do).

Comment 4

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

The remaining part of comment 1 is not a parser bug, and I'm pretty sure it isn't a spec violation in layout, either.