Closed
Bug 183982
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
No line-breaking if closing DT tag missing for <TABLE><TR><TD><FONT><DL><DT><DD>
Categories
(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 117738
People
(Reporter: larrycook, Assigned: harishd)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
No line-breaking occurs for a definition list if a closing DT tag is missing and
this definition list is nested inside of <TABLE><TR><TD><FONT>. This is invalid
HTML 3.2 per http://validator.w3.org, but if the closing DT tag is there, the
definition list is correctly displayed. For that reason I thought this was
worth reporting. (NOTE: The missing closing DT tag is courtesy of an M$ product
used by our office admin on our department web site.)
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the following HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<!--
This is an example of malformed HTML generated by M$ products.
The problem is a missing closing DT tag which causes the DD
defintion list to not do line-breaking. Add the missing
closing DT tag and you'll see how it differs.
This problem is seen with Mozilla 1.1 and 1.2.1.
-->
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-1">
<TITLE>missing DT tag</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD> <!--remove this and it works fine-->
<FONT> <!--remove this and it works fine-->
<DL>
<!--or have the TD nested inside of the FONT and it works fine-->
<DT> Term <!--missing closing DT causes problem-->
<!--or add the missing closing DT and it works fine-->
<DD> Definition </DD>
</DL>
</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Actual Results:
The missing closing DT results in the term and definition on the same line. No
line-break is performed. If additional term/defintion pairs are added, all of
them show up on a single line.
Expected Results:
Add the missing closing DT where appropriate so that the definition list is
displayed with the appropriate line-breaks.
This may be related to 146678 which also deals with DL nested in side of FONT,
but with a missing closing FONT tag instead of missing closing DT tag. I could
not reproduce 146678 unless it was also inside a TABLE, similiar to my problem.
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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Added reporter's testcase to URL field as a data URI.
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Comment 2•22 years ago
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Yep. residual style for the <font> seems to be messing with things... there is
no <dd> node in the content model.
Assignee: other → harishd
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Layout → Parser
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: ian → moied
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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*** Bug 125927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Comment 4•22 years ago
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Bug 125927 deals with multiple DD tags after a DT not appearing properly, but
the cause appears to be the same. Before verifying this bug fixed, please make
sure that 125927 is working.
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Comment 5•22 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117738 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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