25893 2009-05-20 10:46:51 -0700 createElement should support passing markup instead of just element name, e.g. document.createElement("<select readonly>") 2022-08-05 10:06:16 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit DOM 528+ (Nightly build) All All RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED P2 Normal --- 1 lucio.correa webkit-unassigned ahmad.saleem792 ap bfulgham enqd evan ian lucio.correa Ms2ger rniwa oldest_to_newest 122190 0 lucio.correa 2009-05-20 10:46:51 -0700 Hey Guys. I'm trying to access a website (www.minhacasaminhavida.pe.gov.br) but webkit based browsers doesn't work with that. This is the message returned by WebInpector: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: DOM Exception 5 HTMLComponents.js:1962Error: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: DOM Exception 5 The file location is http://www.minhacasaminhavida.pe.gov.br/pmc/components/HTMLComponents.js Thanks in Advance 122208 1 lucio.correa 2009-05-20 15:27:12 -0700 (In reply to comment #0) > Hey Guys. I'm trying to access a website (www.minhacasaminhavida.pe.gov.br) but > webkit based browsers doesn't work with that. This is the message returned by > WebInpector: > > INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: DOM Exception 5 > HTMLComponents.js:1962Error: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: DOM Exception 5 > > The file location is > http://www.minhacasaminhavida.pe.gov.br/pmc/components/HTMLComponents.js > > Thanks in Advance > Ah, forgot to add that it works in Firefox and IE too. 122331 2 ap 2009-05-21 05:50:54 -0700 Believe it or not, but Firefox successfully creates a SELECT element with document.createElement("<select>"). IE has a separate code path. 122332 3 eric 2009-05-21 05:53:04 -0700 Seems we should file a bug with mozilla. 122333 4 ap 2009-05-21 06:00:01 -0700 IE even supports document.createElement("<select readonly>"), but Firefox does not. My guess is that Firefox had to partially implement this IE quirk for web compatibility. 271494 5 ap 2010-08-30 10:25:46 -0700 *** Bug 44841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 271496 6 ap 2010-08-30 10:27:37 -0700 Another example of a broken site in duplicate bug. 329255 7 evan 2011-01-04 15:29:31 -0800 Alexey's guess in comment 4 is correct: Mozilla bug discussing the problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489532 Diff showing they added angle brackets: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/content/html/document/src/nsHTMLDocument.cpp&rev=3.791&mark=1459,1467-1473#1458 But it looks like they removed it in 2004: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ecdf587c02d0 329272 8 ap 2011-01-04 16:03:24 -0800 > But it looks like they removed it in 2004: > http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ecdf587c02d0 In fact, that's July 2010, just weird date formatting. If Mozilla won't reconsider removing this quirk before shipping Firefox 4, we almost certainly don't want to add it. 329492 9 Ms2ger 2011-01-05 02:02:07 -0800 I don't think Mozilla will add this quirk back. (At least, I'll do what I can to avoid it.) Lúcio, any chance you could contact the website? The changes they need to make come down to changing document.createElement("<img>") to document.createElement("img"). (The ones that are guarded by isIE checks are probably not problematic.) 1889145 10 ahmad.saleem792 2022-08-05 10:06:07 -0700 The test case from Mozilla Bug mentioned in Comment 07 behaves same across all browsers: Link - http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3Cscript%3Ew%28document.createElement%28%22%3Cx%3E%22%29%29%3C%2Fscript%3E ** Safari 15.6 on macOS 12.5 ** error: InvalidCharacterError: The string contains invalid characters. on line 1 rendering mode: BackCompat document has no title ** Firefox Nightly 105 ** error: InvalidCharacterError: String contains an invalid character on line 1 rendering mode: BackCompat document has no title ** Chrome Canary 106 ** error: Uncaught InvalidCharacterError: Failed to execute 'createElement' on 'Document': The tag name provided ('<x>') is not a valid name. on line 1 rendering mode: BackCompat document has no title ____ Since all browsers are now matching with each other, I am going to mark this as "RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED". Please reopen, if I have mark it as wrong. Thanks!