485161 - Text appears broken

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[L. Mohan Arun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3

FF 3.1 b 3
In this URL the word "If" appears broken, and it appears normally in IE8.
Site uses no browser-specific CSS 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to URL
2. Look for broken "If"

Actual Results:  
Word broken

Expected Results:  
Word to display normally even if it is in different span's

Comment 1

[Stoyan Dimitrov [:stoyan]]

The 'I' of the 'If' is in <p> element (ending on the closing span, just after the letter). This bug is INVALID. Try to validate (http://validator.w3.org/) your code first.

Comment 2

[L. Mohan Arun]

Yeah but the p is not closed yet, only span is closing. It is not my code and not my site, and web pages do not have to validate to display as intended in browsers (again and again).

Since IE8 displays both I and f on the same line, unbroken, displaying f on the second line is open to question (unless there is a rendering standard for this)

Comment 3

[drhowarddrfine]

The markup is invalid and incorrect. You can remove this from the bug list. There is no bug here.

Comment 4

[L. Mohan Arun]

The bug is that </span> causes a line break. IE 8 displays in the same line. How can you prove that, Firefox is correct in rendering this markup? Again browsers need to handle all the following
- invalid markups
- incorrect markups
- non validating markups
- non-compliant markups

That is how the Internet has been made so far.

Comment 5

[L. Mohan Arun]

"the <div> tag forces a line break, where as <span> does not."
FROM
http://www.codethenet.com/divspan.htm

If there is a more authoritative reference, let me know.

Comment 6

[L. Mohan Arun]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_and_div

It doesnt say, </span> creates a line break.

the page author seems to have fixed the code now, so now it is not possible to find what caused that span to break.

Comment 7

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

I'm going to mark this WFM based on comment 6. If you have a testcase that shows what the markup in question looked like, feel free to reopen.

Comment 8

[Stoyan Dimitrov [:stoyan]]

Attachment: The markup in question

Attached is a code that reproduces the described behavior.

Comment 9

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

All right. So, the HTML5 algorithm does not insert a line break there. I suppose we *could* fix it in our parser, but the effort to do so seems like it vastly outweighs the benefits, especially considering that we have an HTML5 parser on the way, so this will be fixed when that lands. I'm marking this WONTFIX, even though it should eventually be fixed.

Comment 10

[drhowarddrfine]

As I said above, and is shown in the attachment, the markup is invalid.