167802 - Bad HTML causes render problems in Bug Summary Page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11901

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Description

[Ray and/or Tosca DeGennaro]

There is some bad HTML (assumingly in the templates) that causes render problems in browsers that are more standards compliant (e.g. iCab).  The particularly noticeable problems at the listed URL is that the descriptions don't wrap correctly and there's a "<c>" dangling next to the text area.  Below is BBEdit's error report, but iCab has a built-in error report, and you can always use the official validator at <http://validator.w3.org>

Ray

Line 61:  Attribute “nowrap” for element “<td>” must be empty; value was specified as “nowrap”.
Line 761:  Element “<td>” implicitly closed here.
Line 846:  Document type doesn't permit attribute “wrap” within element “<textarea>”.
Line 853:  Attribute “checked” for element “<input>” must be empty; value was specified as “checked”.
Line 886:  Value of attribute “onchange” for element “<input>” is invalid; Value needs entity encoding (“if ((this.value != '[e-mail]') &amp;&amp; 
                            (this.value != '')) {
                         document.changeform.knob[3].checked=
Line 1002:  Value of attribute “bgcolor” for element “<table>” is invalid; Value isn't hex color spec or predefined color.
Line 1037:  Attribute “nowrap” for element “<td>” must be empty; value was specified as “nowrap”.
Line 1068:  Value of attribute “href” for element “<a>” is invalid; URL path needs encoding (“buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&amp;bug_status=ASSIGNED&amp;bug_status=REOPENED&amp;email1=rayntosca%40insightbb.com&amp;emailtype1=exact&amp;emailassigned_to1=1&amp;emailreporte

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

-> Bugzilla

Comment 2

[Ray and/or Tosca DeGennaro]

There's a comment that the status should be unconfirmed.  Whomever is confirming this report should do so with a browser that actually follows the standard and interprets the "nowrap" attribute.  IIRC, all versions of IE on Windows and MacOS and all Mozilla-based browsers on any platform ignore this attribute.  It has been a while since I've looked at an Opera browser, but I believe they have compatibility setting(s) to toggle bad-browser compatibility or standards compliance.  I know that iCab (Mac OS only) has a number of compatibility settings to mimic IE and Mozilla bugs, or to follow the standards.

Ray

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11901 ***