135364 - Comment Start and End tags do not display in textarea

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133044

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Ken Conley]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2002040203

Comment start and end tags (<!-- and --> respectively) do not display within a
textarea input form  (other HTML syntax display fine).  The text within the
comments does display.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  Text within the comment will display, but the comment start and
end tags will not.

Expected Results:  The comment start and end tags should be displayed (this is
the behavior in Netscape 4.x and IE).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You need to escape those less than and greater than signs... Our behavior is
correct per HTML4 spec, since TEXTAREA does not contain CDATA.  Basically, the
HTML3 spec and the HTML4 spec are in direct disagreement here.... what fun.

Duplicate of "Single line HTML comments get mangled in textarea"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133044 ***

Comment 2

[Christine Hoffman]

Changing QA contact