169906 - View Source shows all entity names in lowercase

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63137

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Tea Curran]

If I have a textarea box with a </U> (Uppercase U) in it, it renders on the
screen as </u>.  If I view source it also renders as Lowercase even though in
the html file it is uppercase.  Submitting the form unaltered submits the
lowercase u, thus changing the content.

Comment 1

[Tea Curran]

Attachment: textarea box rendering content incorrectly

I should also mention, that we have seen this bug on Windows 2k, Mac OS9, and
Mac OS X.

Comment 2

[Malcolm Rowe]

The contents of TEXTAREA is defined as PCDATA - i.e., text including markup.

If you want the text '</U>' to appear in the text area, you'll need to escape 
it as '&lt;/U&gt;'.

I think this is invalid.

Comment 3

[Tea Curran]

This makes sense.  At very least, however, shouldn't the view source show the
'</U>' correctly since that is the correct source?

Comment 4

[Malcolm Rowe]

Ummm.. Yes, of course it should.

I missed the 'If I view source it also renders as Lowercase...' line in your bug
report.  Actually, all entity names are shown in lowercase in View Source.

Resummarising.  Old summary:
</U> in textarea box renders as </u>
New summary:
View Source shows all entity names in lowercase

As for a testcase, bring up View Source on http://www.mozilla.org
Contrast with the output of
http://webtools.mozilla.org/web-sniffer/view.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mozilla.org

-> ViewSource and confirm with Mozilla 1.1.

Comment 5

[Hugh Kennedy]

marking as dup of bug 63137

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63137 ***