317792 - Bad interpretation of an <a href='url'/> tag with CSS specified content

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[tyger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

I used a <a href='url'/> with CSS adding an image content to it, the text after the link was also selected as a link.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make a link without a content like <a href="www.url.net"/>
2.(optionnal) add content using CSS


Actual Results:  
The content after the link is considered part of the link.

Expected Results:  
Understand the <a href="www.url.net"/> as a <a href="www.url.net"></a>

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

<a href='url'/> is not valid HTML (HTML is _not_ XML). It is recognized by the HTML parser as <a href='url'>, i.e. a start tag with a missing end tag. If you want to use XML syntax you should declare your document as XHTML instead.

This is INVALID.