251010 - & nbsp visible in table text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Bateman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Search for bateman on the search form at http://hamcall.net/cgi-bin/searchr.exe
 In the results table, the non-blankable spaces (& nbsp) are visible.  This
didn't happen in 0.8.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://hamcall.net/cgi-bin/searchr.exe
2. Search for bateman in name.
3. & nbsps appear in table text.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

If there's going to be a period after the &nbsp, the &nbsp needs a semi-colon to
close it ( ).  Otherwise the browser thinks it's trying to find an entity
called &nbsp. that doesn't exist.

Regardless of previous renderings, what is currently happening on the page is
correct.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 280266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 302593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***