212955 - Creating multi-level indented lists in Composer results in invalid HTML 4.01 Transitional

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 54479

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Scott I. Remick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

If you create a list then indent an item to create a sub-list, the resulting
HTML does not validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional. You will get the error:

document type does not allow element "UL" here; assuming missing "LI" start-tag

Problem is composer will create HTML like this:

<ul>
<li>item</li>
<ul>
<li>item<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>

When it should be:

<ul>
<li>item
<ul>
<li>item<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Composer
2. Click the button to create a bulleted list, add text
3. Click the button to indent the list, add more text
4. Validate the code w/ the W3C validator

Actual Results:  
W3C validator reports:

document type does not allow element "UL" here; assuming missing "LI" start-tag


Expected Results:  
Contain the sublist within a list item. Lists can only contain list items, not
another <UL> or <OL>.

Searched Bugzilla for "list item" and couldn't find any existing bugs.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

What version of Composer are you using?  The date you have in the initial
comment says "Firebird"

This seems like a dupe to me; perhaps something that was fixed in the last month
or two?

-->Editor:Core

Comment 2

[Scott I. Remick]

Sorry, I realized that afterwards that Bugzilla was reporting what I browsed
with which is now different than what I use for Composer.

The last build I tested this with was 20030714, so pretty recent.

Comment 3

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

this is a dup of 54479.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54479 ***

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

verified dupe