252671 - Browser not handling the display of the special character &lt when it is butted up against other text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Carpenter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

In my html source if I use the &lt specifier to show a < symbol the browser will
display the characters &lt if there is text butted up against it. (i.e. &ltSome
text)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Generate a html document that has the following text.
         &ltTest One
         &lt Test Two

Actual Results:  
&ltTest One
< Test Two

Expected Results:  
<Test One
< Test Two

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

You're required to end the entity with a semicolon (<) in such cases.

Always ending it with the semicolon is considered good coding practice in any event.