32422 - Non-terminating anchor tag, when a <cite>..<p>..</cite> tag(s) is/are nested inside it.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Dimi Shahbaz]

Linux, Mozilla nightly build 031716.

The following HTML:

<p>random text
<p>text before a link: <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/"><cite>link
<p>..link </cite></a>text after link
<p>more randomness

causes the anchor (link to www.fastcompany.com) to NOT terminate at the </a>.
Instead, everything after <a href:...> is treated as the link.  If I remove the
nested <p>:

<p>random text
<p>text before a link: <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/"><cite>link
  ..link </cite></a>text after link
<p>more randomness

the anchor tag correctly terminates at </a>.  If instead I remove the
<cite></cite> tags:

<p>random text
<p>text before a link: <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/">link
<p>..link </a>text after link
<p>more randomness

again, the link is terminated correctly.

Comment 1

[Dimi Shahbaz]

Attachment: Here are the 3 cases I mentioned. (NOTE!! I put the erroneous case at the bottom, so as to avoid breaking the other 2 correct ones)

Comment 2

[harishd]

Moivng to my list since Rickg is on sabbatical.

Comment 3

[harishd]

Should probably be fixed for rtm.

Comment 4

[harishd]

Changing rtm to nsbeta3.

Comment 5

[harishd]

Moving to the FUTURE list.  Please raise your concerns. Thanx.

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Ugh, this is very invalid HTML. 

If anyone wants this fixed, we're going to need to find top100 sites that 
exhibit this.

If we don't fix it by rtm, then we might as well mark it WONTFIX or INVALID,
since by then there will be a precedent for our behaviour: us.

Comment 7

[gerardok]

massive update for QA contact.

Comment 8

[harishd]

I don't see the problem anymore. Marking WFM. Could someone please verify this? 
Thanx.

Comment 9

[Loco]

Actually, the problem is still appearing.  From Hixie's comment though, this 
should be an INVALID.  Marking as such, since <p> is illegal inide <a> tags.

REOPENing.

Comment 10

[Loco]

Now marking 
RESOLVED INVALID.

Also changing Plat/OS to ALL since it affected everything:).

Comment 11

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*shrug* VERIFIED, since it's invalid. reopen if you find some top100 sites that
exhibit this behaviour.

Comment 12

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.