256035 - File > Save Page As... strips out ending / from self closing tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205264

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Kevin Hall]

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

Using the Save Page As... option in the File menu incorrectly strips out the
closing / in (X)HTML tags. For instance, in a page that contains the lines:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />

After saving the page from the browser the file contains the lines:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">

This can invaldate XHTML code and is also simply inaccurate. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a web page that uses self closing tags (most pages that are valid XHTML
will have this somewhere for an image or meta tag).
2. Use File > Save Page As... and save the page to your HD.
3. Now go to View > Page Source (Ctrl+U on Windows)
4. Compare the two files to see closing slahses have been stripped out.

Actual Results:  
Self closing tags (e.g. <img source="foo.gif" />) have the closing slash
stripped out (e.g. <img source="foo.gif">).

Expected Results:  
The code should not have been altered. The closing slashes should still be present.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205264 ***