94160 - bad <select> tag that works in NS and IE no workie in Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[David Karr]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3+)
Gecko/20010806
BuildID:    2001080603

This is probably a dumb report, but I decided to report this, just in case you
don't consider this a dumb report.  It all depends on whether Mozilla is
expected to handle broken HTML that both IE and Netscape deal with properly.

The bug is with an excerpt like this:

 <select />
  <option>a</option>
  <option>b</option>
 </select>

Notice that the "select" tag is self-closing, but it still has a closing tag later.

In Netscape 4.7x and IE 5, this select box contains the two options "a" and "b".

In Mozilla, the select box is empty, and the text "a b" appears to the right of
the select box.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the "select" tag example in a test HTML file.
2. Load it into Mozilla (and Netscape 4.7x and IE).
3.

Actual Results:  The select box is empty, and the text "a b" appears to the
right of the select box.

Expected Results:  Obviously, this is debatable.  Netscape and IE do what a
"human" might expect (be stupid), and Mozilla does what the computer expects.

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Mark INVALID?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The point is that neither IE nor NS handle the <foo /> syntax at all.  Makes
them kinda annoying for XML documents...

This is invalid.  There are plenty of other bugs filed on this topic if you care
to search, and they are all invalid or evangelism.