Closed Bug 304792 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

bad empty table element handling : <table/>

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(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

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()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 185693

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(Reporter: philippe.gassmann, Unassigned)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050728 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050728 Firefox/1.0.6

When i use this XHTML : 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
		<title>Test</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<table>
			<tr>
				<td style="background-color:#00FF00;">
					something
				</td>
				<td style="background-color:#0000FF;">
					<table/>
				</td>
			</tr>
		</table>
		This text should be after the table !
	</body>
</html>
The text saying that it should be after the table is in the table : the <table/>
element seems to "eat" every other closing elements located after it.
I know that my documents should not have such empty table tags. But I think
Firefox (gecko) should simply ignore these empty tags.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. just show the html present in "Details" in Firefox
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Bad layout : the text after the table is in the table

Expected Results:  
the text afer the table must be displayed after the table
Works for me, Deer Park Alpha 2, WinXP.
It does not work for me under deerpark-alpha2 running on linux.
In fact, it does not work if the extension of the file is .html but it works if
its .xml

In that case, please read the XHTML spec. Appendix C.3:

"Given an empty instance of an element whose content model is not EMPTY (for
example, an empty title or paragraph) do not use the minimized form (e.g. use
<p> </p> and not <p />)."

This is a dupe of bug 185693 or any other of the 'XML syntax in a HTML document'
type of bugs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185693 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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