Closed Bug 268477 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Some self-closed <tag ... /> are not closed.

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: HTML Parser
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162653

People

(Reporter: steve, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier: 

<tag> ... </tag> can be replaced by <tag />, yet this self-closed shorthand is not always 
recognized. XHTML requires all tags to be closed.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
 <html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Before font tag<br />
<font color="red" size="5" />
After font tag -this should look no different since tag is self-closed.<br />
</body>
</html>

Actual Results:  
The closing / was ignored; it opened the <font> without closing it. No doubt this applies to 
many tags, not just <font>.

Expected Results:  
<font...></font> should be identical to <font ... /> and should be treated as a 'no-op' (when 
there is nothing between tags, obviously).
No browsers I've tested so far recognize self-closed tags, that is they all ignore the fact 
that they should close.
You have to serve the page as application/xhtml+xml to use that syntax.

Otherwise, the page is treated as text/html, which means you have to follow the
Appendix C rules of XHTML 1.0 for how to handle closing tags.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
*** Bug 268826 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 268883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 272870 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 277045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 286218 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Resolution: INVALID → DUPLICATE
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