Open Bug 193185 Opened 22 years ago Updated 2 years ago

[quirks]Strikethrough styles text in textarea only in pages without DOCTYPE

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: rcj, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030208

If a page without a DOCTYPE contains a textarea inside an S tag, the text
styling is applied to the contents of the textarea. If a valid W3C DOCTYPE is
added, this no longer happens. This does not happen with B, I, TT or other
non-deprecated inline tags. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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See also http://www.barooba.com/1142/striker.html (DOCTYPE exists, but with no DTD).
*** Bug 193190 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Geez! Sorry for the multiple posting, guys. I had no idea that reloading was
doing that. :(
*** Bug 193203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Assignee: asa → form
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Layout: Form Controls
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: asa → desale
Summary: Strikethrough styles text in textarea only in pages without DOCTYPE → [quirks]Strikethrough styles text in textarea only in pages without DOCTYPE
Assignee: layout.form-controls → nobody
QA Contact: desale → layout.form-controls
Severity: normal → S3
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