562921 - Additional - in the end comment <!---- text --------> does not cause the comment to stop.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[James]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9

I was doing some development work for my company using a websphere 6.0 server. In some of my code the functions properly in ie, failed in firefox. The solution was to remove extra -'s in the comment start and end. The failed comment is below.
<!---- My comment's text ----------> 
This caused most of my code on the page to not show at all. It commented most of my page out to the very bottom of the page where there was another comment that stopped it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Non standard starting and ending comment block
2. Is processing java code on the page
3.
Actual Results:  
Most of the page failed to display at all

Expected Results:  
All of the code on the page to display

It is easy to resolve the issue manually.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

In HTML, multiple dashes are not allowed in comments.