1776161 - domparser parse email link not correct

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[deju.tu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

   var text = `<div>
           Email: <a href="mailto:[e-mail]?subject=Hello&body=Your%20opinion" style="color: #707070;">[e-mail]</a>
         </div>`;

  var domParser = new DOMParser();
  var dom = domParser.parseFromString(text, 'text/xml');

Actual results:

run script above and then got error: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed. It is success when remove &body=Your%20opinion.

Expected results:

run success.

Comment 1

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

Where exactly should I run this script to work?
Thanks.

Comment 2

[deju.tu]

Attachment: throw error

Comment 3

[deju.tu]

(In reply to Hani Yacoub from comment #1)

Where exactly should I run this script to work?
Thanks.

please look the attached image. The script would not throw the error in other browsers.

Comment 4

[deju.tu]

Attachment: version of browser

Comment 5

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

The ampersand needs to be escaped to be valid XML. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53008615/why-is-the-ampersand-an-invalid-character-in-xml. You probably actually want to parse as HTML so change text/xml to text/html.