404954 - textarea doesn't accept XHTML-style empty element tag

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162653

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Colin S. Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

With this HTML fragment
    <form>
      <textarea name="log" rows="20" columns="50" />
    </form>
    This text should be below the text area


the textarea tag isn't closed by the />, and the rest of the HTML appears in the text area. Since the document is XHTML the textarea should be closed.

IE 6 also gets this wrong; Opera 9 closes the textarea and displays the rest of the HTML.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Load the attached document
Actual Results:  
There will be text inside the textarea control

Expected Results:  
There shouldn't. The rest of the HTML will be parsed.

Comment 1

[Colin S. Miller]

Attachment: Sample HTML to reproduce