207461 - HTML entities don't work correctly in CSS content rule.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Jan Suchal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

content: " ";

in 
q:before { content: " "; }

and the browser prints out the string   not the non-breaking space

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make any CSS rule like p:after { content: "[ ]"; }
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
Mozilla should replace it with valid html entity representation.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Reading the CSS2 and even CSS3 specs on content, I believe that content isn't
supposed to do that.  You're simply giving it a text string to output (generally
speaking).  I suspect this bug is invalid.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

See bug 204324 comment 1.  Mozilla is not supposed to replace &nbsp and it
should be returning the actual string.  So this is invalid.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q4 for documentation of CSS
character escapes.

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 215770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Neil Deakin]

*** Bug 281262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Erik Fabert]

*** Bug 292192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***