183706 - Unable to define linfeeds within the alt and title attributes.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 45375

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Virgil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Using the HTML encoded strings 
 or 
 do not produce the expected line
feed/carriage return characters when defined within the alt or title attributes.

Internet explorer handles these two character strings as I would expect but I'm
unclear as to what the HTML specifications are on these two particular character
strings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Duplicate of bug 67127 for the "title" problem, at least; I think there's 
another bug on laying out alt text. (Correct sequence should be 

 BTW.)

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

The original bug 67127 actually mentions the ALT tag in it's sample, but it is
about the black square that can render instead of linebreaks.

Bug 45375 is about TITLE wrap. (Then there's bug 47078.. hmm)

I don't think ALT text displays as a tooltip in Mozilla, so resolving this one
as dup of bug 45375. (By way of bug 59743, bug 182471)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45375 ***

Comment 3

[Virgil]

In reply to comment #2,

ALT text does not display as tooltip that I am aware of, however if the image is
unable to be displayed should the ALT text not be displayed with any formating
that has been defined within it's value.