275578 - does only show the dom part of a select-box

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Wilfried Goesgens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041128 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-4)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041128 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-4)

as long as the dialog part is welformed (<option value = "value">value</value>)
firefox will strip all characters outside of the tags. if you do something like
<option.....>foo</option>\n the linefeed and anything you  put at that place
will disapear. if you destroy the welformedness (changing the </values> to
</foovalues> *zap* the linefeeds and garbage characters will reapear.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
linefeeds and anything else gets thrown away.

Expected Results:  
it should view me my html as i send it there.

does this aply to other  constructs than <select><option/> </select> ?

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Are you talking about "View selection source" on the right-click menu, or View
menu, Page Source? View selection source is supposed to show you the DOM, that's
what it does and the only possible way it could work (what would you show for
the 'original source' when it started as <span>foo bar</span> and then was
replaced by a script setting the innerHTML to an entire <form> in a <table>?).

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Invalid per comment 1. Description is not clear and no reply from reporter for a
month.