502581 - Singular anchor tag interpreted as surounding the following sections

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162653

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[lijat.me]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/531.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.183.1 Safari/531.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10

When writing two singular anchor tags after each other the second anchor tag is interpreted as surrounding sections following it. 

Example
<h4>
      <a name="SECTION00022100000000000000"/><a name="Cirkel_radie"/> <br/> <span class="arabic">1</span>.<span class="arabic">2</span>.<span class="arabic">1</span> Cirkel radie
    </h4>

is interpreted as 

<h4>
<a name="SECTION00022100000000000000"/>
<a name="Cirkel_radie">
<br/>
<span class="arabic">1</span>
.
<span class="arabic">2</span>
.
<span class="arabic">1</span>
Cirkel radie
</a>
</h4>

The later is copied from firebug,

Also sections following the closing </h4> tag is interpreted as being surounded by copies of the later <a name="foo"/> tag

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the url provided and watch the javascript output or firebugs interpretation of the tags, its reproducible with and without javascript enabled

Actual Results:  
Incorect xml tree visible to javascript causing correct javascript to produce garbage in garbage out

Expected Results:  
No visible <a> html tag in the javascript output on the page

<a name="foo"/> beeing equivalent to <a name="foo"></a>

if changing to <a name="foo"></a> the problem dissapears

Comment 1

[lijat.me]

Attachment: archive of files demonstrating the problem

Comment 2

[lijat.me]

Maybe should note that when testing with other gecko based browsers the same problem occurs so its not version or firefox specific

Comment 3

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

According to the XHTML 1.0 specification section C.3 of appendix C, you may not use of <a /> within html.

If you want us to parse your XHTML as XML, please give it the correct MIME type
(text/xml or application/xhtml+xml).