Closed Bug 212670 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

<iframe></iframe> works every time, <iframe/> only once a page.

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(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 158667

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(Reporter: mhartle, Unassigned)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 During development I found out that using <iframe src="somepage.html"/> only works once per page; in the attached example, using <iframe/> at a certain point in a page leads to the rest of the page not being displayed. When using <iframe></iframe> instead, it works like a charm (so far) :-) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use <iframe/> self-closing tag instead of <iframe></iframe> tag pair in a page. Actual Results: The rest of the page after the <iframe/> tag is not displayed, at least not in the attached example provided. Expected Results: <iframe/> should behave like <iframe></iframe> - at least according to my understanding, but I may be wrong.
This is invalid. You can't use XML syntax in HTML. While <iframe/> is self-closing in XML, in HTML the "/" is just an unknown attribute that is ignored (which is why you usually add a space for compatability reasons, <iframe />). I took your testcase, converted it to XHTML, and it works as expected. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158667 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
>You can't use XML syntax in HTML. Er, I should say, you can't always use XML syntax in HTML. The link I gave, for the XHTML spec Appendix C, gives the rules for writing XHTML that can be processed as HTML successfully.
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
Component: Layout: HTML Frames → Layout: Images
Product: Core Graveyard → Core
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