251834 - CSS2 content:'\A' (newline) isn't rendered

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 17646

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[XFox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040711
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040711

As stated in http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#content, you can use
escape characters in content:before and content:after. Mozilla supports escaped
characters such as \40. However, it doesn't recognize line breaks such as \A.
This may be an OS-specific ASCII formatting issue with Mozilla. Although the
content isn't meant to be parsed (try entities), that page at the W3C says \A is
acceptable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make 2 inline elements
2. style them to have a line break ('\A') using the :before or :after
pseudo-elements

Actual Results:  
\A isn't recognized.

Expected Results:  
This should break the line

OS line-formatting specific? This problem is showing up for me in Windows.

Comment 1

[XFox]

Attachment: TESTCASE

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

It's not supposed to, per CSS 2.1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17646 ***