Closed Bug 621209 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Too many "-" characters in HTML comment

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

People

(Reporter: cjgensheimer, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10
Build Identifier: 3.6.1.3

I was developing a web site and added the comment: 

"    <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -->" to separate a few blocks of code. This rendered in IE and Chrome but not FF. Changing the "-" characters to "*" characters fixed it. Example:

    <!-- ************************************************************************************** -->



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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This was the correct way to do it in html4 but as you noticed no other browser implemented the specification properly. This changed in html5 and Firefox 4 implements that so once that comes out this will no longer be an issue.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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