369899 - Doesn't jump to anchor tags within a table

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176449

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, enhancement)

Description

[tylernt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

If you navigate to an URL with an anchor (index.html#anchor), and that anchor name is within a table, Firefox does not scroll to the anchor name. Rather, it scrolls to the top of the table containing the anchor name. Internet Explorer will scroll to the anchor name within the table as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a page that contains anchor names inside of a table
2. Click on an anchored link or type the anchor into the Address Bar

Actual Results:  
1. Firefox scrolls to the top of the table containing the anchor name

Expected Results:  
1. Firefox scrolls to the actual location of the anchor name within the table

Internet Explorer will scroll to the anchor name within the table as expected.

Comment 1

[Brian Polidoro]

Attachment: testcase

Do you have a testcase?  This testcase works as expected.

Comment 2

[tylernt]

The test case is an internal page that I can't post publicly, but upon closer inspection it looks like an HTML error contributes to this issue. The code says [table][tr][a name=value]somedata[/td][td]moredata[/td][/tr][/table] so there is a missing [td] tag. I suppose the fact that IE handles the malformed HTML doesn't necessarily mean that Firefox should too.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Firefox's HTML parser pushes things that don't belong in tables outside of the table (except for forms, where it uses a crazy hack).