286193 - bad attributes nodeList if attribute's value has quotation mark(\").

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[June Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ko-KR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

I am using HTMLElement.attributes attribute to write outerHTML function.
if an element's attribute value has \", node List of that element is broken.
let's see detailed example. below is html code.

html code :
<p id="test" onclick="alert(\"bingo\")">test</p>

I've checked the dom of above p element in dom inspector.

node List :
nodeName       nodeValue
)
bingo
onclick        alert(\  
id

if works properly, node List should be:
node List :
nodeName       nodeValue
onclick        alert(\"bingo\")  
id

I tested in firefox 1.0 and mozilla 1.8 beta.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

The correct way to escape quotation marks in HTML is to use ", \" just
closes the attribute value after the \.