298623 - view source add the ">" end tag when not in source

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 70918

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[dani m]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Firefox/1.0.4

I did a little script to minimize my time working.
when your HTML script containes something like this:
<OPTION <?php if($_POST['day']=="1") echo "selected "; ?>>1</OPTION>
the view source adds a "<" entitie in to close the <OPTION tag.
the view-source show this:
<OPTION ><?php if(@$_POST['day']=="2") echo "selected "; ?>>2</OPTION>

i know the problame is the view source because i inserted it into a <textarea>,
the textarea showed what i needed but the viewsource still adds the "<".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.written the HTML into the file.
2.saved it
3.watched it in the view source

Actual Results:  
the view source adds a "<" when the actually source doesnot.
this what i wanted to see:
<OPTION <?php if($_POST['day']=="1") echo "selected "; ?>>1</OPTION>

Expected Results:  
this is what view-source showed to me:
<OPTION ><?php if(@$_POST['day']=="2") echo "selected "; ?>>2</OPTION>

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Firefox 1.0.X is too old (the Gecko in FF1.0.X is over 12 months old).
Please retest with the Deer Park Alpha or a nightly build.

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

This was most likely fixed by bug 70918.  Dani, please retest with a newer version.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I knew that this should be fixed but didn't know the bug#
marking as dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70918 ***