262841 - Links (a) in unordered lists (ul, li) get randomly bumped to a new line.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Balarama Bosch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

On the page http://www.krishna.com/_new/main.php?id=323 certain links <a>
get randomly bumped to a new line, as if a line break was inserted in front of
link. See attached image.

I also made sure the html markup is well-formed. It should conform to XHTML 1.1,
though it's using a custom DTD (XHTML + Value attribute for lists). I also made
sure it's not the CSS stylesheet doing this.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. code an unordered list (ul) which includes a link in the list item (li) part.
Actual Results:  
The link gets bumped to a new line as if a line break (br) were inserted in
front of it.

Expected Results:  
The link should have remained an inline item (i.e. no new line).

Comment 1

[Balarama Bosch]

Attachment: An example of links being bumped to a new line.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

<ul>
<a name="true">	<li>is free from all selfish motives.</li>
	<li>represents Krishna purely.</li>
	<li>embodies the knowledge given by Krishna.</li>
	<li>is firmly fixed in thought of Krishna.</li>
	<li>is recognized by </li></a><a
href="http://www.krishna.com/newsite/main.php?id=326">twenty-six qualities</a>.
	<li>is qualified to help you perfectly understand knowledge of the self,
Krishnaand your relationship with Krishna. </li>

</ul>

Your <a name="true"> closes here:
<li>is recognized by </li></a>

That's invalid and causing the line break.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

oops, the view selection source code changed the source.

Here's why the real source is invalid:

<h3><a name="true" />True Teachers</h3>
              <p>Knowledge from the Vedas must be received from a true teacher.
A true teacher:</p><ul>
	<li>is free from all selfish motives.</li>
	<li>represents Krishna purely.</li>
	<li>embodies the knowledge given by Krishna.</li>

	<li>is firmly fixed in thought of Krishna.</li>
	<li>is recognized by <a
href="http://www.krishna.com/newsite/main.php?id=326">twenty-six qualities</a>.</li>
	<li>is qualified to help you perfectly understand knowledge of the self,
Krishnaand your relationship with Krishna. </li>
</ul>

You're serving the page as text/html, so you cannot use this syntax to close an
<A> tag: <a name="true" />

You have to either serve the page as XML, or write the code to the HTML
compatibility guidelines.