276387 - empty textarea-controls in xhtml pages induces a wrong element assignment

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Helmut Ackermann]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

Comment 1

[Helmut Ackermann]

Attachment: an xhtml file with an empty textarea tag which results in a bad layout

When I display an xhtml page, like the attached file, with an empty textarea
tag, <textarea/>, the following elements are wrongly interpreted as
text-content of the textarea control. As a consequence the layout will be
disordered.
I use Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

You can't use the <textarea/> syntax unless you serve your page as an XML type
(application/xhtml+xml).

Otherwise, the page is parsed as HTML and HTML syntax applies.