242866 - Special Character Entities Do Not Require Semicolon

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul MacDougall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040309
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040309

If the semicolon is left off character entities like "&trade" and "&amp" Mozilla
will still display the special character.

While in most cases this is what the user meant, in some cases it might not be.

The SGML definition does state that the semicolon is sometimes optional
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#entities).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an html file with &trade with no semicolon
2. open this html file in Mozilla


Actual Results:  
the trademark symbol is displayed

Expected Results:  
&trade should be displayed because the semicolon is missing

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Like you said yourself, the trailing semicolon can be optional in some cases, as
the spec outlines.

Unless you have a testcase where the semicolon should have been required and the
entity rendered despite no semi-colon, this is not a bug.