439332 - do not load color background if has a semicolon

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Brahndo Agni]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; pt-BR)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 and Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC3

Open right in Opera and passes on the W3C Validator


If passes in the Validator should open of the same mode in all browsers, should not?

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Do not load color background if has a semicolon (;) in the end of the bgcolor attribute


It's the same bug that have been reported:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176248

Comment 1

[Brahndo Agni]

Demo page: http://garamujo.googlepages.com/bug-example.html

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Then do not report it again if it's already been reported

Comment 3

[Brahndo Agni]

I think that I have committed a mistake

It's not the same bug that have been reported

Comment 4

[Daniel.S]

Thanks for reporting.

According to HTML 4.01, a semicolon is not allowed as a color value (the validator is wrong in this case). However, HTML 4.01 does not specify error handling for this case, so the layout created by Safari and Opera is not necessarily wrong. For best interoperability you should prefer the variant without semicolon, though.

This problem will lekiely be fixed by HTML 5. But for now this is no bug.