Closing <li> should close nested <div>

• Component: DOM
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Ian Taylor]

While self-closed tags are not a supported part of XHTML in any of the three major browsers, the failure condition in WebKit differs from that of IE and Firefox.  

It appears as though Webkit's search for a close tag for the "missing" close tag of the self closed tag is scoped differently than IE and Firefox.

I've attached a test case that reproduces the behavior.
(see bug 26151 for more discussion of self-closed tags)

[Ian Taylor]

Created attachment 30917 [details]
A test case showing the innerHTML value on a self closed xml tag.

[Ian Taylor]

Created attachment 30918 [details]
The same file but submitted as application/xhtml+xml

[Ian Taylor]

Created attachment 30919 [details]
A test case showing the innerHTML value on a self closed xml tag.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This has nothing to do with "self-closing" tags - every browser treats <div/> exactly like <div> in HTML.

I can confirm that this source is parsed differently than in Firefox and than HTML5 postulates - "<div id='foo'/>Hello</li>" should be equivalent to "<div id='foo'>Hello</div></li>", not "<div id='foo'>Hello</li></div>". Re-titling accordingly.

[Adam Barth]

Created attachment 68215 [details]
test case for landing

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Comment on attachment 68215 [details]
test case for landing

/me is happy today.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 68215 [details]
test case for landing

Clearing flags on attachment: 68215

Committed r67969: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/67969>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.