281262 - special characters in CSS attribute 'content:' (used in ':after') are not handled

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 207461

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Alexander Stiebing]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.50 (Windows NT 5.0; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.7a  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219

CSS extraction:

.out:after
{ Content:" ("url(../pics/exit.png)")"; }

HTML extraction:

link to <a class="out" href="http://www.mozilla.org/download.html" 
target="_blank" name="mozilla" title="Mozilla">Mozilla</a>...


If one is trying to use these codes, the picture is correctly displayed after 
the link, but instead of a space between link text and picture there appears the 
string '&nbsp;'. This seeme to happen with each kind of special characters (e.g 
'&pound;', '&euro;')

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

those are HTML entities... since this is CSS, this seems to work as intended.
note this part of http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#content :

"In particular, it is not fed back to the document language processor (e.g., for
reparsing)."

you can use \a0 if you want a non-breaking space in CSS, if I'm reading this right

Comment 2

[Neil Deakin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 207461 ***

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

ah, yes. bug 204324 might have been a better dupe target, but anyway, vrfy.