171494 - <a name> within <li> inserts an extra newline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 100930

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[morpheus]

The following html snippet displays with an extra newline:

<a name="foo" />
<ul>
<li><a name="bar">test</a></li>
</ul>

Comment 1

[morpheus]

Attachment: Testcase exhibiting problem

Attached testcase exhibiting the problem.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is not valid HTML.  You have:

<a>
  <ul> <li> <a> test </a> </li> </ul>

So you have nested <a> tags.  If you look at the DOM the parser generates out of
this "html", you will see that the text is not even inside the <li> (closing out
the outer <a> also closes out the <li>, it seems).

Layout is absolutely correct given that content model.

Comment 3

[morpheus]

Hmm...  I see.

Eventhough that first <a> element is properly ended?  I have <a name="foo" />,
not <a name="foo">.

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

morpheus: the tag is _only_ properly closed if you send the file as text/xml or
application/xhtml+xml or application/xml. in all other cases, the /> is no
closing of a tag.

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100930 ***