Closed Bug 304340 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Missing character immediately after HTML coded character.

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Version:
1.7 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mfreymond, Unassigned)

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

Here is a simple example page:

<html>
<head>
</head>
This is an ampersand: &amp
<P>
There should be a semi-colon in the sentance after the ampersand &amp; but there
isn't.

</html> 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save html example above as test.html
2. open html file
3.

Actual Results:  
Missing Characters

Expected Results:  
Displayed all the characters as specified in the HTML.
WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050811
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005081108

Reporter, see if you can reproduce with a nightly.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Component: General → DOM: HTML
Product: Firefox → Core
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
Your given testcase has nothing after the ampersand so why would you expect it
to display a semi-colon? Please attach a testcase to the bug that demonstrates
this issue.
Version: 1.0 Branch → 1.7 Branch
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
It looks like in your sentence you expect '&amp' to be displayed as an ampersand
and ';' to be displayed after it.  HTML entities should have a ; after them to
eliminate confusion when they're embedded in text that might add to the entity name.

You probably want &amp;; => &;
Component: DOM: HTML → DOM: Core & HTML
QA Contact: general → general
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