Closed Bug 1043336 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

View selected source code interprets html instead of showing the real source

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
30 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164906

People

(Reporter: tech, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140605174243

Steps to reproduce:

I am debugging a website in french Language and i try to find the best use of htmlentities.
I open a page containing text converted with htmlentities. I select the text and open view selection source. 




Actual results:

I see that all characters converted by htmlentities aren't converted.


Expected results:

I should see special chars converted in html like é
It is the same under Linux Debian or Windows 7 and the same with Firefox or Seamonkey
Can you provide a testcase?
Flags: needinfo?(tech)
Here is a webpage to test :

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
&euml;&eacute;&eacute;&egrave;&egrave;&agrave;&agrave;&ugrave;&ugrave;&ecirc;&acirc;&ucirc;&icirc;&ocirc;&auml;&Euml;&Iuml;&Ouml;&Uuml; 
</body>
</html>

In the browser, this page shows :

ëééèèààùùêâûîôäËÏÖÜ 

if you select this string and right click on view selection source, it shows : ëééèèààùùêâûîôäËÏÖÜ
instead of &euml;&eacute;&eacute;&egrave;&egrave;&agrave;&agrave;&ugrave;&ugrave;&ecirc;&acirc;&ucirc;&icirc;&ocirc;&auml;&Euml;&Iuml;&Ouml;&Uuml;
Flags: needinfo?(tech)
Right, so this is because "view selection source" operates on the generated DOM (which it has to, because what if you manipulate the DOM with JS and the user selects bits of it?).

document.body.innerHTML doesn't have the entities anymore, hence why you're seeing what you're seeing.

This looks like a straight up duplicate of bug 164906 to me, which we can't fix (and is therefore marked "wontfix").
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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