292060 - html comments in css produces errors in js console

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

I'm wondering if this is an real error with the CSS or a bug in our CSS style system

going to:
http://www.google.com/firefox

I get:
Error: Selector expected.  Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.
Source File: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=:en-US:official
Line: 3

this html code:
<style><!--
#frame {margin: 0 auto;}// -->
</style>

also produces errors:

Error: Selector expected.  Ruleset ignored due to bad selector.
Source File: file:///c:/temp/index.html
Line: 2

Error: Unexpected end of file while searching for 'closing } of invalid rule set'.
Source File: file:///c:/temp/index.html
Line: 3

while this is fine:
<style>
#frame {margin: 0 auto;}
</style>

Comment 1

[Anne (:annevk)]

While <!-- and --> should probably be ignored in text/html documents at the
start and end of the STYLE element, // is not valid within CSS. (It is in
javascript.)

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

That is correct behaviour. The "//" part is invalid, see CSS2.1 for details.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

I've reported the problem to google

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=user&hl=en