310234 - XHTML-compliant anchors don't render correctly; break subsequent text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Colin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

doesn't seem to parse <a name="goHere" /> correctly... thinks subsequent text to
next </a> is a link, so <a name="goHere"></a> is required for anchor points

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make an html file
2.include an xhtml-compliant anchor point: <a name="goHere" />
3.watch it break; then change to <a name="gohere"></a> and watch it work

Actual Results:  
it broke

Expected Results:  
had an anchor

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

In an HTML file, <a name="goHere" /> is parsed as <a name="goHere">.  The
attribute '/' isn't recognized and is thrown away.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3.  You cannot use the minimized form for
non-empty elements if you want your XHTML file to be compatible with HTML.

->invalid