340975 - Text "--" in HTML comments forces browser to display the comments in webpage.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dotan Cohen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; he; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

Some (all?) HTML comments that contain the text "--" force Firefox to display the comments in the webpage. For instance:
"<p>Hello <!-- **** --> World</p>"
Produces: "Hello World"

However,"<p>Hello <!-- Big -- Bad --> World</p>"
Produces: "Hello <!-- Big -- Bad --> World"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create page with HTML comment that includes "--" within the comment
2.Display page in Fx

Actual Results:  
The text "Hello <!-- Big -- Bad --> World" was displayed in the browser.



Expected Results:  
The browser should have displayed "Hello World".

The bug was confirmed by others, as you can see on this page:
http://www.siteexperts.com/forums/viewConverse.asp?d_id=19226

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214476 ***