269077 - CSS seems not to parse correctly if values are quoted

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Sean Kelly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I coded a simple example page to demonstrate a parsing issue in the CSS handler.
It does not accept values that are contained in quotes. The non-quoted values
are accepted fine. Though it may be incorrect to supply quotes in this fashion
in CSS, it is not altogether uncommon and should not be a difficult matter to
take such optional value encapsulation into account.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a CSS script with values encapsulatedin quotes such as:
.normal { color: "black"; }

2. apply the CSS to text in an HTML document by class name

3. Pull up the document in FireFox.


Actual Results:  
CSS property value is not applied to the text

Expected Results:  
The software should discard/ignore quotation marks (both single quote and double
quote) surrounding values so that they can be applied correctly.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Verified.  The CSS spec explicitly prohibits "taking such optional value
encapsulation into account".