193060 - View Selection Source displays "<br />" tags as "<br>"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190947

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Ryan Grove]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When viewing selection source of text on a page with XHTML-style break tags (<br
/>), the source viewer for some reason converts the tags to HTML-style (<br>).
This could cause quite a bit of confusion, since the source being displayed
doesn't represent the actual source.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some text on a webpage containing XHTML-style break tags.
2. Right-click and choose "View Selection Source"

Actual Results:  
XHTML-style break tags were displayed as HTML-style break tags.

Expected Results:  
The selection source should be displayed as is, unmodified.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

View selection source never represents the actual source (that would be
impossible to implement if you consider DOM modifications) -- it is a
serialization of the DOM.  That means that on an HTML page (not XML) it should
be dropping the '/' from <br />

Comment 2

[Ryan Grove]

That makes sense. Even so, it caused me to waste a good twenty minutes trying to
figure out why my web application was generating incorrect XHTML. It would be
nice if the source viewer would let the user know that they're not necessarily
seeing the actual source in this circumstance. 

Comment 3

[rbs]

-> head over to that bug 190947 if you have a suggestion about a simple
and intuitive way to remind users that the source comes from the DOM.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190947 ***

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

This could also be considered a dup of bug 233386.