281580 - 'File / Save Page As...' strips xhtml closing tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120556

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken McInnes]

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 was saving local browser pages, of served pages, for validation through
http://validator.w3.org.

When I used 'File / Save Page As...' through the menu, this stripped the xhtml
closing tags from the source page.

'View / Page Source' then 'File / Save Page As...' saves the xhtml correctly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an xhtml page in Firefox.
2. 'File / Save Page As...'
3. Look at the saved page and note the differences . eg. meta tags that were
closed are no longer closed, img tags that were closed are no lnger closed.

Comment 1

[Hiro]

Confirm.
And Mozilla1.7.4 reproduces.

First of all, http://validator.w3.org returns "Content-Type" with "text/html;
charset=utf-8". 

Therefore, I think that "HTML Complete save" does save as HTML. 
But in save of "HTML Only", there is no problem. 
I do not understand whether this difference is a specification. 

By the way, there is no problem in the server to which "Content-Type" is
 returned with "application/xhtml+xml;".

Windows XP SP1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050208 Firefox/1.0+
Mozilla 1.7.4 Release

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120556 ***

Comment 3

[Ken McInnes]

This issue does not seem to be a 'resolved'.
Particularly by the many people who create xhtml 1.0 webpages with a full
doctype, saved as .html, or for those who create such xhtml 1.0 webpages
delivered by server-side software. 
The code received will be modified if they inadvertently 
'File / Save As ...' rather than 
'View / Page Source' then 'File / Save Page As...'
For students still learning, this is confronting, and confusing. 

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Ok.  This bug report is still a duplicate.