309195 - View source "corrects" broken html code by adding > if missing. "<foo<bar>" becomes "<foo><bar>"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70918

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Thomas Andersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

If the source contains "<foo<bar>", view source will "correct" it to "<foo><bar>".

Also, if a document only contains "<foo", view source will show nothing at all.

My quotes (") is not a part of the code.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View a document containing <foo<bar>
2. View source (^u)
3. Notice that <foo<bar> is now "corrected" to <foo><bar>

Actual Results:  
The view source function does not display the source of the page. Perhaps it
display the source of what is rendered, but not the actual source code.

Expected Results:  
I would expect view source to show me the source as it is, with no modifications.

It is hard to find bug in your html code when firefox hides/correct it in the
view source function.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050918 Firefox/1.4

I think this is a dup of bug 70918.

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

Comment 2

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Verified DUPE. In Firefox 1.5, we one-up ourselves and even try to show these
typos in red to help identify them.