291239 - When there is a new line after the opener tag and one before the end tag it display a space after.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2750

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Michael Muryn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

By going to the page I gave as reference:

http://www.emf.net/%7eestephen/htmlner/whitespacebugs.html

It shows four example:

<P>
<U>1. This text is underlined with no carriage returns.</U>
<BR>

<U>
2. This text is underlined with carriage returns before and after.
</U>
<BR>

<U>
3. This text is underlined with a carriage return before.</U>
<BR>

<U>4. This text is underlined with a carriage return after.
</U>

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Strangely, only the 2nd one show a space at the end (for a newline), while the
4th one doesn't show a space.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Please see the details I gave, it is about HTML code interpreter.
Actual Results:  
There is a space inserted before the closing element for the 2nd example while
rendering the HTML.

Expected Results:  
No space inserted before the closing element for the 2nd example while rendering
the HTML.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem here is that HTML isn't really sure whether it's a document language
(markup describes content model) or a layout language (markup describes
presentation).  If the latter, it's not compatible with CSS (and Mozilla is a
CSS browser, with HTML implemented in terms of CSS).  If the former, then it's
implying that those spaces should be removed from the DOM... which is not a
layout issue.

Comment 2

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2750 ***