18864 - </B> ignored by html parser

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel MacDonald]

in the center frame on the page the opening news statment contains this html,
<BR><B>
<FONT COLOR="gray" FACE="arial" SIZE=1>
 November 10, 1999 <BR>
<FONT COLOR="lightslategray" FACE="arial" SIZE=3>
 Engine & Demo update  <FONT FACE="arial" SIZE=1></B>

mozilla ignores the </B> and the whole news article is boldfaced instead of a
normal typeface (windows 98, SE) build ID: 1999111408

Comment 1

[rickg]

This is a dup of the residual style bug. In fact, it may already be fixed with
ENABLE_RESIDUALSTYLE.

Comment 2

[harishd]

Further reduced:

<B>
 <FONT>
   November 10, 1999 <BR>
</B>
Not bold

In the above example the text "Not bold" is rendered BOLD in Nav 4.x and Gecko.
However, IE doesn't.

Comment 3

[rickg]

This is fixed when you enable residual style handling.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 991 ***

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Agreed. Marking as verified duplicate of 991.

Comment 5

[rickg]

Actually, this is displaying the same way in Gecko and Nav. Note that nav
displays this incorrectly, and we do too for compatibilities sake.

Comment 6

[rickg]

reopening

Comment 7

[rickg]

Closing this out. Based on NavX quirks mode, this is NOT a bug.

Comment 8

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified won't per last comments.

Comment 9

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.