Bug 6302

Summary: Problem with incorrectly nested HTML tags
Product: WebKit Reporter: Markus Dehmann <markus.dehmann>
Component: DOMAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: hyatt, ian, mitz
Priority: P2 Keywords: HasReduction
Version: 420+   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: All   
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Markus Dehmann
Reported 2005-12-30 05:01:29 PST
If a "bold" tag is not closed in the current nesting element, but in a later element, safari ignores it. Here is a mini example (I hope bugzilla displays the HTML correctly): <html><body> <div><p>plain<b>bold</p></div> <div><p></b>plain</p></div> </body></html> The second "plain" is plain in firefox and opera, as expexted, but safari makes it bold. In safari, it is not possible to close the b tag after p and div have closed. Of course, the HTML is invalid, but safari should deal with it. Making the second "plain" plain and not bold would be the expected behavior. The problem occurred in a web forum where one user used a b tag in his posting, but did not close it. The posting was automatically enclosed in p and div tags. Now, all subsequent postings were in bold font (see http://wahnzeit.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=38396&comments=on).
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2006-02-07 14:35 PST, Joost de Valk (AlthA) 		no flags
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Joost de Valk (AlthA)
Comment 1 2006-02-07 14:34:46 PST
Confirmed. Adding testcase in a sec.
Joost de Valk (AlthA)
Comment 2 2006-02-07 14:35:04 PST
Created attachment 6336 [details] Testcase
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 3 2006-02-07 15:07:20 PST
Duplicate of Bug 6854 or vice-versa?
Joost de Valk (AlthA)
Comment 4 2006-02-08 01:41:28 PST
*** Bug 6854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 5 2007-11-22 12:33:13 PST
Fixed by Mitz in <http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/21472>.
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