215372 - img alt does not render neither '\n' nor '<br>'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 45375

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Andriy Rysin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030313
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030313

alt attribute of img element does not render properly '\n' symbol, neither it
does '<br>' tag so there's no way to break lines there

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to put this in <img src="" alt="line1\nline2"> html
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
you'll see some symbol between line1 and line2

Expected Results:  
line1 and line2 should be split in two lines

Comment 1

[Andriy Rysin]

Attachment: testcase

actually on mozilla 1.4 with static HTML \n' in alt gives '\n' and with dynamic
HTML it just gives space

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Dupe of bug 45375. See also bug 67127 and bug 47078.
The difference with the staic and dynamic version is easy : \n doesn't exists in
HTML, os it's rendered directly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45375 ***