257129 - :before and :after in conjunction with "content:" doesn't parse HTML special characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204324

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Elie `woe` BLETON]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.2; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

When using the CSS property "content:" in conjunction with any of the :before of 
:after pseudo-elements, if the code specify some HTML special characters 
beginning with an ampersand (&), those characters are not correctly parsed and 
displayed raw.

I've created a special html page in order to reproduce the bug.
Opera (Win/Linux) and IE6 seems to correctly handle this.

Further symptom of the problem is that the text added in the document via :after 
{ content: addedtext } seems not te be selectable with the mouse. 

Problem also appears on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Mozilla 1.7.1

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the page
2. Breathe
3. Open your eyes

Actual Results:  
You can see that the HTML special characters are not parsed in this case, 
meaning ampersands and strange codes appearing in the document.

Expected Results:  
The software should have parsed and replaced the special characters according to 
existing conversion tables.

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

This is a DUPLICATE of a bug marked INVALID. Looking for it...

Comment 2

[Anne (:annevk)]

There was another one too, but this one seems correct.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204324 ***