211235 - Search fails in large file with nested tables

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 211233

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Steffen Möller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The file was generated by a script from a phylogenetic tree as commonly used in
bioinformatics. HTML tables are (miss)used to draw the tree. The search in the
file for the names of particular leaves of the tree fails as if they were not
existing.

I ran tidy over it, it complains about:
line 46880 column 1 - Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute
line 46880 column 12 - Warning: <td> attribute "bgcolor" has invalid value "orange"
line 46882 column 67 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&idx"
line 46882 column 76 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&q"
line 46882 column 88 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&x"
line 46882 column 92 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&y"

The & is within a string of a href and the search did not work before these were
added either. Since it works with konqueror, it can't be that broken. The orange
is correctly displayed.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open page
2.searcn for ESMUST00000005446
3.grep in source for verification - it is there and it is displayed, the text
was actually grabbed from the display.

Actual Results:  
The search engine reports the string not to be present.

Expected Results:  
Point me to it - as usual.

MS-Explorer or Netscape 7.0 under windows can't find this either, konqueror can.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211233 ***