I Steps: Go to http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/css/css21/contributions/incoming/00003.xht II Issue: The text appears red instead of green as backslash parsing fails. III Conclusion: issue with backslash parsing IV Other browsers: IE7: not ok; link does not open FF3: ok Opera9.24: ok V Nightly tested: 32005 Another link with same issue: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/css/css21/contributions/incoming/00006.xht (this test passes in Opera)
I can confirm the bug. It violates the definition of CSS 2.1 CR: "It is possible to break strings over several lines, for esthetic or other reasons, but in such a case the newline itself has to be escaped with a backslash (\). For instance, the following two selectors are exactly the same: a[title="a not s\ o very long title"] {/*...*/} a[title="a not so very long title"] {/*...*/}" [http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#strings]
Created attachment 21458 [details] minimal test case
See also: bug 28885.
the analysis of this bug is incorrect; in particular, the attached test case and the test from hixie cited below [1] contain a backslash that is OUTSIDE of a string, and NOT in a string; [1] http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/css/css21/contributions/incoming/00003.xht the text cited below in comment #1 refers to backslash appearing IN a string; the more complete, relevant text from CSS 2.1 is found in Section 4.1.3 [2] which states: "First, inside a string, a backslash followed by a newline is ignored (i.e., the string is deemed not to contain either the backslash or the newline). Outside a string, a backslash followed by a newline stands for itself (i.e., a DELIM followed by a newline)." [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html so, in fact, the backslash followed by newline that appears in these tests should be treated as the token sequence <DELIM NL> according to the general grammar in [3], DELIM matches the 'any' non-terminal, so the attached test should parse as two consecutive rulesets: ruleset <= 'h1 {background: white; color: red}' ruleset <= '\ zzz, h1 {color: green}' where in the second ruleset the selector non-terminal matches DELIM IDENT DELIM IDENT [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#tokenization now, however, the more restrictive grammar in Appendix G [4] does not admit backslash or DELIM as a token in a selector, so consequently, the second ruleset fails to match the selector non-terminal, and thus the entire second statement is treated as a malformed statement and ignored [5] [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/grammar.html [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#parsing-errors i checked both Opera and FF and both behave the same as WK