286083 - empty textarea tag puts all following (x)html in textarea

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263012

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Matthijs Wensveen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

when a document contains an empty textarea tag, like this:
<textarea />

the rest of the document after the textarea tag is showed as the content of the
textarea, even though the document is valid xml.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a document conaining an empty textarea tag (i.e. attached html)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The html or xhtml of the document after the textarea is shown as the content of
the textarea

Expected Results:  
show a valid document with an empty textarea

Comment 1

[Matthijs Wensveen]

Attachment: html containing empty textarea tag

Comment 2

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

The empty syntax only exists in XML (and thus XHTML). You need to serve your page as an XML 
document and not as an HTML (tag soup) document.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263012 ***

Comment 3

[Matthijs Wensveen]

Okay, I agree, but how do I go about serving xhtml documents as xml. Set the
content-type to text/xml makes firefox render it as an xml document if there is
no stylesheet attached to it. So content-type has to be text/html for xhtml
documents.

I've attached a valid xhtml document where this still happens.

Comment 4

[Matthijs Wensveen]

Attachment: xhtml document with empty textarea tag

Comment 5

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

I can't reproduce that behavior with a recent nightly build. Loading attachment
177379 [details] results in an empty textarea followed by a submit button.

You shouldn't need to set the content-type to text/html, just having a proper
namespace should be enough.