34417 - <SCRIPT> contents are not properly parsed

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Ulf Axelsson]

(Version is M14!)

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Part of a <script> </script> tag are visible.

Apparently the parser terminates the <script> tag with a </script> tag
that is part of the text being written to the document within the script.

It is rather odd JS-code but I think the parser should be able to handle
it.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It's actually the correct behavior according to the HTML spec.  The first
occurrence of </ ends a script element, and it should thus be escaped within JS
strings as <\/ .

There are other bugs on this, most of which have been marked wontfix, but one of
which was marked fixed (partially).

Comment 2

[Richard Zach]

This seems to have been fixed along with the other </script> bug; at least
there's no stray script code showing up on the page anymore on build
2000.04.16.06.  Marking WFM.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Works for me:
Platform: PC
OS: Windows 98
Mozilla Build: 2000101014 M18 Trunk Build

Marking as Verified.