Closed
Bug 268474
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
/div does not close <font>, should it?
Categories
(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)
Core
DOM: HTML Parser
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RESOLVED
INVALID
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(Reporter: steve, Unassigned)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier:
The question is whether </div> should terminate certain tags, such as <font>.
My tests with five browsers showed that IE-Mac did terminate <font>, but
Camino, Firefox-Mac, Safari, and Opera-Mac did not. I don't recall this being
addressed in the HTML/XTHML spec anywhere.
This is similar to #115964.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
The following code illustrates the issue:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Before division.<br />
<div><font color="red" size="5" />
Inside division<br />
</div>
After division. Is unclosed font tag closed by /div? Should it be?<br />
(/div closes font on IE-Mac, but not closed by Safari, Opera-Mac, Firefox-Mac, and
Camino-Mac.)<br />
</body>
</html>
Actual Results:
My tests with five browsers showed that IE-Mac did terminate <font>, but Camino, Firefox-
Mac, Safari, and Opera-Mac did not.
Expected Results:
I don't recall this being addressed in the HTML/XTHML spec. anywhere.
I'm assuming this is in code which is common to Mac, Windows, Camino, Mozilla, Firefox,
etc browsers.
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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No spec says anything about this case because you should nest your tags
correctly (e.g., <div><font></font></div>). So we go into error recovery
(residual style handling) and open the font back up after the </div>.
I'm going to mark this INVALID, since all other majors browsers handle this in
the same way (IE-mac seems to be the exception here) and we want to keep
consistency with them.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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