686503 - HTML not rendered properly when span tag is used

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P5)

Description

[Steve P]

Attachment: spanned.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110902133214

Steps to reproduce:

Composed a web page


Actual results:

Firefox 6.0.2 is not rendering HTML properly when span tag is used.  Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and prior versions of Firebox do render the HTML properly.  Using Firefox and IE on Windows XP.


Expected results:

Specifications via span tag should have been respected.  See comments in attached file.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is an unclose <a name="Example1">, which has to get closed when the <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank"> is parsed.  That involves closing the <span class="mknorm" as well.

Over to parser, but I believe the new behavior is what the HTML5 spec calls for.  It also matches WebKit, and I believe matches the IE10 platform preview.

Comment 2

[j.j.]

Attachment: testcase (standards mode)

Comment 3

[Matt]

I would assume the <span> is automatically closed because <p> is not a valid child of <span>.  You'll want to use <div> for this.

-<span>'s only valid children are "Phrasing Content": see "content model" of http://www.w3.org/TR/html/text-level-semantics.html#the-span-element
-<p> is not "Phrasing Content": http://www.w3.org/TR/html/dom.html#phrasing-content

Chrome is also matching Firefox's behavior on this one.

Comment 4

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 5

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Closing per comment 3.