25828 - anchor tag bombed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Edward Brown]

I've noticed that if a web page has a tag like this:

<a href="http://a.site.com"><font size=3>A Site</a>

Mozilla crashes and doesn't read the '</a>' tag.

Everything else on the page becomes linked to that anchor.

The </font tag must be used prior to the </a> tag.
Other browsers allow for font tag nesting and other trickery.
Ed

Comment 1

[harishd]

Moving to my list.

Comment 2

[harishd]

Attachment: Reduced case.

Comment 3

[harishd]

Attachment: Screen shot..

Comment 4

[harishd]

The content-model:

docshell=00ED9910
html@0125212C refcount=3<
  head@012521DC refcount=2<
  >
  body@0120257C refcount=3<
    a@01214E2C href=http://a.site.com refcount=3<
      font@0121431C size=3 refcount=3<
        Text@01214830 refcount=3<linked >
      >
    >
    Text@01215120 refcount=3<not linked\n>
  >
>

Comment 5

[harishd]

Could you tell me which build you are using? Because I don't see any of the 
problems you mentioned.

Comment 6

[harishd]

Not able to reproduce the problem. Marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

Works for me in the April 20th build.

Comment 8

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.