891005 - <menuitem> tag not autoclosing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 676236

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/menuitem and http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/interactive-elements.html#the-menuitem-element, <menuitem> is supposed to be used without the close tag (no </menuitem>). However when used that way, the resulting DOM actually adds sibling menuitems as children.

STR:
data:text/html,<button contextmenu="menu">menu</button><menu id="menu" type="context"><menuitem label="one"><menuitem label="two"></menu>

That DOM should have the 2 menuitems as siblings and both appear in the context menu. When you inspect the DOM can see this:

<button contextmenu="menu">menu</button>
<menu id="menu" type="context">
  <menuitem label="one">
    <menuitem label="two"></menuitem>
  </menuitem>
</menu>

Comment 1

[Florian Bender]

Will be fixed in Bug 676236.