Closed Bug 351419 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Two sequential dashes inside a commented block uncomments it.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

People

(Reporter: georgi.boshnakov, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

A full page is given after a line of dashes. Here is the essense.
The following snipped from an html file is seen in the rendered page:
<!--
this is commented--out
-->
There is no problem without one of the dashes before "out":
<!--
this is commented--out
-->

A complete file is given below (I tried to remove almost everything unrelated to the problem).

-------------------------------------------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<title>Georgi Boshnakov - School of Mathematics</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="description" content="Georgi Boshnakov, School of Mathematics, The University of Manchester">

</head>


<body>

<p> before comment </p>

<!--
this is commented--out
-->

<p> after comment </p>

</body>
</html>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an html file from the contents of the Details section starting at <!DOCTYPE=...
2. Open the file in Mozilla.
3. The text <!-- this is commented--out --> appears in the rendered page.
4. To isolate the problem, remove one of the dashes in "commented--out" and open the file again. Now the commented out block does not appear. 

Actual Results:  
The text 
    <!-- this is commented--out -->
appears in the rendered page when there are two dashes before the word "out".


Expected Results:  
I do not expect the text between <!-- and --> to appear.

This is a minor problem but it may not be easy to track down under some circumstances.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214476 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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