Closed Bug 436298 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Starting comment tag within comment pair disrupts comment pair.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

People

(Reporter: blasterdrp, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

Starting comment tag typed between the start and end of a comment pair disrupts the pair.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create comment pair.
2. Insert unclosed starting comment tag between start and end tags of comment pair.
Actual Results:  
End tag displays on screen, as well as the text following the lone comment starting tag.

Expected Results:  
Lone starting comment tag is ignored as text as it is not the first.

Discovered bug while maintaining closed-source e-commerce database. This issue cannot be worked around on the web designer's end.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This issue is NOT resolved as of Firefox 3 RC2.

Note: This page has been checked in Opera 9.5, Internet Explorer 8, Safari 3 and Amaya 9.99, each of which displays the page as it should be.
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