Closed Bug 273855 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

firefox (and mozilla web browser) incorrectly handles <textarea/> tag

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162653

People

(Reporter: nexus, Unassigned)

References

()

Details

(Keywords: testcase)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 if I use collapsed notation of empty <textarea></textarea> tag (<textarea/>, firefox handles it as "not closed" tag and throws in rest of whole xhtml code as text Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. uses <textarea /> anywhere in html code 2. try to display it with firefox or mozilla web browser 3. see and try to validate the page at w3.org Actual Results: I've seen a textarea element with a rest of my html code in it (http://www.smoula.net/download/bug.jpg) Expected Results: wanted to see an empty textarea element ;) maybe a bug in gecko I've also tried this on cvs version (yesterday evening - 12. Dec 2004) with similar results
Assignee: firefox → nobody
Component: General → Layout: Form Controls
Keywords: testcase
OS: Linux → All
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: firefox.general → core.layout.form-controls
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Assignee: nobody → parser
Component: Layout: Form Controls → HTML: Parser
QA Contact: core.layout.form-controls → mrbkap
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162653 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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