218727 - Unclosed FONT tags cause Mozilla to show some links as usual text (not a link)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58917

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[virtan]

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

If we cycle the code "[a href=x][font]abc[/a]" (square brackets must be replaced
by angle ones) for more than 199 times we get following situation:
Mozilla correctly closes unclosed FONT tags until we reach entry 199;
since this magic entry Mozilla starts to close A tag immediately after opening it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. generate html page with code "[a href=x][font]abc[/a]" (square brackets must
be replaced by angle ones) cycled for more than 199 times
2. view it in Mozilla
3. try to click link in entry 199 or more

Actual Results:  
Links since entry 199 became usual text (not linked)

Expected Results:  
Text inside opening and closing tags of A must be shown as link in any case.

Comment 1

[virtan]

Attachment: bug reproduction

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58917 ***

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

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