292620 - doesn't recognize correct ended textarea tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181996

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

Description

[Lars Johannesen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

<textarea ... /> is not recognized as an ended textarea tag and the following
html code is put into the textarea.

However <textarea ..></textarea> is recognized as an ended textarea tag.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create html page that contains <form ..> <textarea .. /></form>..
2. Open the page in firefox
3. Se the bug (the stuff after the textarea tag in the table tag)

Actual Results:  
You see a textarea with some html code in it.

Expected Results:  
You should see an empty textarea, since the <textarea .. /> is valid.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Looks like bug 181996 to me. Reporter, can you show us an url with this error ?
Is this in HTML or XHTML ?

Comment 2

[Lars Johannesen]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks like bug 181996 to me. Reporter, can you show us an url with this error ?
> Is this in HTML or XHTML ?

XHTML

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

XHTML or HTML is not the right question. What is the content-type?

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

If this is text/html, this is invalid.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please reopen if against expectation you're sending the data as
application/xhtml+xml.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181996 ***