8856 - Carriage returns immediately before a </td> or a </a> are rendered as white space.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 2750

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[joshua]

The URL is to a code snippet that shows the added whitespace between two images in a table when there's a carriage return in the HTML between the <img> and the </td>.  The effect was duplicated with </a> and with Text instead of an <img> (see snippet URL).

This is non-standards compliant.  See W3C 4.0 Specification Section B.3.1.  Occurred using Milestone 7, Build ID 1999062113

Comment 1

[rickg]

I'm unable to reproduce this. Viewer looks identical to IE and Nav.

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

I'm also unable to reproduce this issue in July 1 build. Marking verified works
for me.

Comment 3

[webmaster]

I believe the original reporter should have stated that it was using the same
behavior as IE & Nav, but that this behaviour is incorrect. The correct
behavior, according to the W3C, is to ignore white space directly before and
after a closing or opening tag.

Perhaps this needs to be differentiated between Quirks mode and Standards mode?

Comment 4

[leger]

Clearing WorksForMe resolution since it got re-opened.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I believe the issues is not with *any* whitespace after start tags or before end
tags, but only line breaks (seems silly, but that's what SGML says).   Section
B.3.1 of HTML40 ( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3 )
refers to section 7.6.1 of ISO8879 (SGML), and gives a few examples.

Comment 6

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This a dup of bug 2750.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2750 ***

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

Agreed. This report is now a duplicate of 2750.