Handling of misnested tags results in entire page appearing as link

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load http://www.avalon5.com/index.php/personal/oh-crap-im-turning-into-one-of-them/.
2) Note that the majority of the page content starting from "Picture the scene" is a clickable link.

Firefox renders the page "correctly".  A reduction of the page shows that the closing </a> tag is missing towards the top of the document.

This is not a regression, the behaviour is identical in Safari 2.0.4.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Created attachment 13231 [details]
Reduction

Reduction:

<a href="#outside">
    <p>Outside link.</p>
    <div>
        <div>
            <a href="#inside">Inside link.</a>
        </div>
    </div>
    <p>After all links</p>

Duplicate of bug 12694?

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

It sounds like the same symptoms as bug 12694, but without being able to reproduce it I cannot tell if the cause is the same.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

See also Bug 12861.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

A similar issue appears at http://www.spiegel.de/ towards the bottom of the page.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Fixed in r21472.