51710 - Followup to ampersand character not displayed with bad HTML

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51166

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Andreas Premstaller]

Observed on: Nightly 20000906, WinNT

If the ampersand character (&) instead of the correct code (&) is used in
HTML source to actually display an ampersand character on a page, all the text
following the ampersand up to the next blank is omitted.

Example:
Correct HTML: <P>The C&amp;A-representative wrote...</P>
gives: The C&A-representative wrote...
Incorrect HTML: <P>Looks like that: The C&A-representative wrote...</P>
gives: The C wrote...

This happens whether doctype is defined or not.
If & is not followed by any allowed character code, the text should be displayed
as in the source (at least in quirks mode).

Netscape 4.x and IE display what they are supposed to (even if it may be not so
correct HTML).

Comment 1

[Andreas Premstaller]

Attachment: 1st line: correct HTML, 2nd line: bad HTML

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of 51166 "&foo not rendered properly (quirks)"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51166 ***

Comment 3

[Loco]

Verified duplicate.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.