Closed Bug 294313 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

[quirks]link in dd loses indent if dt is preceeded by an anchor

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Block and Inline
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: dnsurber, Unassigned)

Details

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(2 files)

Reporter's testcase
444 bytes, text/html
Details
testcase made validating
567 bytes, text/html
Details 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The following HTML renders incorrectly. The text following the link is not
indented appropriately. Removing the link or removing DOCTYPE or the anchor that
preceeds the dt makes the problem go away.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <dl>
      <a name="lazy_dog">
      <dt>lazy dog</dt>
      <dd>
	The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown
	fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over
	the <a href="#target">lazy</a> dog.
      </dd>
      <a name="target">
    </dl>
</body>
</html>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save the above HTML as a file
2. Open the file with Firefox 1.0.4
3.

Actual Results:  
Page renders incorrectly. The link and the text after it are not indented.

Expected Results:  
The link and following text should be flowed in line and indented as appropriate
for a dd item.
Attached file Reporter's testcase — 

    
    

    
  


  
<title> added, as validator didn´t accept and empty head, and encoding added.
</a> added, and position of <a>..</a> changed to validate.

    
    

    
  
I understand that the html does not validate, but most of the html on the net
doesn't validate. IE renders the original test case correctly. Whether we like
it or not, to compete with IE, Firefox should render as much like IE as
possible, except where IE is non-standard. Saying that a rendering problem is
not a problem because the html does not validate is not very convincing to an IE
user looking at a corrupt page. JMHO. If you close it again I will leave it closed.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---

    
    

    
  
Your testcase is rendered in Standards compliance mode, as you can see in
PageInfo. Page Info is in the Extras menu on Firefox, in the View menu on
Mozilla. If you want to have it rendered in quirks mode, you shouldn´t include a
doctype.

Some links about Mozilla rendering modes:

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/quirklist.html
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html

and in a temporary location, not a permanent URL:
http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/viewsource/2002/gecko-compatibility/index_en.html
http://developer-test.mozilla.org/docs/Gecko_Compatibility_Handbook

    
  
Summary: link in dd loses indent if dt is preceeded by an anchor → [quirks]link in dd loses indent if dt is preceeded by an anchor

    
    

    
  
This is invalid.  <a> is not allowed to contain <a>, so the link forces the
outer <a> to be closed.  This also forces the <dd> to be closed, since the <dd>
is inside the <a> we're closing.

So the net result is that the text "lazy dog" is not inside the <dd> in the
content model.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID

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