54041 - invalid HTML (a misplaced closing </UL>) causes the style of a link to overflow.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Alex Stewart]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i586; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000925
BuildID:    2000091312

The bug only occurs inside a table.  The order of the closing UL and A tags are
reversed.  http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~am2stewa/new5.html shows what
happens when there is no table (correct rendering).
http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~am2stewa/new4.html shows what happens when
the ordering is fixed (correct rendering).  All three render correctly in NS 4.7
and M17.  The new6.html page is an excerpt
from a cbc.ca page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~am2stewa/new6.html
2. Observe.
3.

Actual Results:  Saw incorrect layout						

Expected Results:  Saw layout similar to http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~am2stewa/new4.html						

Also seen in 2000091908 (which I d/led first...it seems like all the
newer builds have 2000091312 as their ID...but the User Agent reflects the
folder I d/led from)  Similar to bug 991?

The additional paragraph was included to show that some correct HTML
fixes the problem.

<UL><LI><A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/">blah</UL>
</A> Markup with wrong style.

Comment 1

[Alex]

Bad HTML, The tags arn't nested properly and the LI isn't closed marking INVALID

Comment 2

[bsharma]

updated qa contact.