Closed Bug 255925 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

"--" within HTML remark extends remark past first encountered "-->"

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: chhiredgun, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 In the following <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> code: <td width='100%' valign='top' class='post2'> <!-- THE POST 2296 --> <div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteBegin--[x]-Gen.M@&#036;t3r+Aug 9 2004, 10:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (-[x]-Gen.M@&#036;t3r @ Aug 9 2004, 10:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I&#39;ve always gone to RTCWfiles but I can&#39;t even find most of the maps that are ran or some eightmaps thing. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br /> <a href='http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/wildstar/etmaps.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/wildstar/etmaps.htm</a> </div> <!-- THE POST --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class='darkrow3' align='left'><b><span class='desc'>IP: [ ---------- ]</span></b></td> results in everything from "<!--QuoteBegin--[x]-" through "</span>" being treated as a comment. Whereas inserting a space as follows: ...<!--QuoteBegin- -[x]-Gen... corrects the problem. The code is generated by InvisionPowerBoard software and displays correctly when viewed with IE. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
It's supposed to that. '--' opens/closes a comment, so you can't have '--' in the body of the comment. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#idx-HTML
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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