Bug 18691

Summary:

<legend> element is dropped on the floor

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian>

Component:

DOM

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

anantha, commit-queue, darin, hyatt, jchaffraix, mitz, phiw2, webkit

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.5

URL:

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E...%3Clegend%3E...%3C%2Flegend%3E

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Proposed "fix": Land the test case	none

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson

Reported 2008-04-22 22:45:56 PDT

STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1. parse data:text/html,<legend>test</legend> 2. examine the DOM EXPECTED RESULTS <html><head></head><body><legend>test</legend></body></html> ACTUAL RESULTS There's no <legend> there! Could we make the <legend> element parse like any unknown element, instead of dropping it on the floor if it is found outside a <fieldset>? See also: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E...%3Clegend%3E...%3C%2Flegend%3E If we can resolved this relatively soon (like a Safari 3 point release) that would be cool. If we can't get browsers to fix this, then we're going to have to introduce a new element for <figure>'s caption, which would be a pain. As far as I know, other browsers don't have this behaviour with <legend>.

Attachments
Proposed "fix": Land the test case (989 bytes, patch) 2011-05-23 18:26 PDT, Julien Chaffraix	no flags	Details Formatted Diff Diff
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Robert Blaut

Comment 1 2008-07-16 02:34:55 PDT

*** Bug 19634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Robert Blaut

Comment 2 2008-07-16 03:26:52 PDT

I think it's worth to notice that Firefox incorrectly creates fieldset in this case. The issue is tracked by bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430416

Julien Chaffraix

Comment 3 2011-05-23 12:47:36 PDT

I tried to reproduce this bug but we now properly generate <legend> tags. My guess is that the HTML5 tokenizing / parsing refactoring solved it. Our HTML5lib tests don't seem to cover this so taking the bug to land the now passing test case.

Julien Chaffraix

Comment 4 2011-05-23 18:26:08 PDT

Created attachment 94534 [details] Proposed "fix": Land the test case

Hajime Morrita

Comment 5 2011-05-24 20:38:14 PDT

Comment on attachment 94534 [details] Proposed "fix": Land the test case Looks fine.

WebKit Commit Bot

Comment 6 2011-05-24 21:16:00 PDT

The commit-queue encountered the following flaky tests while processing attachment 94534 [details]: http/tests/websocket/tests/handshake-error.html bug 53851 (author: abarth@webkit.org) The commit-queue is continuing to process your patch.

WebKit Commit Bot

Comment 7 2011-05-24 21:17:13 PDT

Comment on attachment 94534 [details] Proposed "fix": Land the test case Clearing flags on attachment: 94534 Committed r87265: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/87265>

WebKit Commit Bot

Comment 8 2011-05-24 21:17:18 PDT

All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug.

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