420873 - <script> tag causes page to appear blank

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327796

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

See attached testcase.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Blank page.

Expected Results:  
The text "This text should appear." should appear.

The testcase passes the W3C validator.

The problem does not occur in Firefox 2.0.

Comment 1

[Timwi]

Attachment: Testcase

Testcase.

Comment 2

[Timwi]

Additional information: The syntax highlighter in the HTML source window exhibits the same problem in that it stops colouring after the <script> tag.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you have to close the <script> and closing it with <script     /> is not valid.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If you want to use XML empty tag syntax, you need to use an XML MIME type.  You're using text/html.