Closed
Bug 1271099
Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
In view-source output, U+003C less-than sign in SVG <script> element is flagged as an error
Categories
(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)
Core
DOM: HTML Parser
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RESOLVED
INVALID
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(Reporter: sideshowbarker, Unassigned)
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Details
Steps to reproduce: 1. Open view-source:https://people.w3.org/mike/tests/svg-script.html 2. Observe that in line 12 the U+003C less-than sign is red. 3. Hover over the red U+003C less-than sign in line 12 and observe that Firefox shows the following error message: Bad character “ ” after “<”. Probable cause: Unescaped “<”. Try escaping it as “<” I’m think this behavior is correct per the HTML spec and SVG specs, but am filing this bug to help have a record here. I believe the reason behavior is correct is that per the SVG spec, that U+003C is not allowed in any SVG element—similar to the way U+003C is not allowed in most HTML elements (what the HTML spec calls “normal elements“), but instead only in the HTML “raw text elements” <script> and <style> and the HTML “escapable raw text element” <textarea> and <title>—and the HTML spec does not similarly classify the SVG script element as a “raw text element” covered by special rules in the HTML parsing algorithm All that said, since that U+003C goes into the DOM as expected and browsers execute the content of that SVG <script> element as expected, perhaps the HTML parsing algorithm should be changed to allow U+003C in SVG <script> elements in the same way it allows U+003C in HTML <script> elements—that is, to require the same specific “raw text elements” handling for SVG <script> elements as it does for HTML <script> elements. I’ve filed https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1215 to propose that.
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Updated•8 years ago
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Comment 1•8 years ago
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/HTML5/HTML5_Parser - The content of SVG script elements is tokenized like they are tokenized in XML—not like the content of HTML script elements is tokenized. - When an SVG or MathML element is open <![CDATA[…]]> sections work the way they do in XML. You can use this to hide text content from older browsers that don’t support SVG or MathML in text/html.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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