RESOLVED INVALID34947
Error Console finding more errors than it should: Unmatched </p> encountered 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34947
Summary Error Console finding more errors than it should: Unmatched </p> encountered
Nathan Reilly
Reported 2010-02-15 10:14:03 PST
The Web inspector has seems to forget about a <p> tag 5 lines higher, and claims the </p> is unmatched. I've created a new HTML document with just the below section which triggers the error <html> <body> <p> <form action="/hubbub/post/addPost/nathan" method="post" > <textarea name="content" rows="3" cols="50" id="postContent" ></textarea><br /> <input type="submit" name="post" value="Post" id="post" /> </form> </p> </body> </html> This is the original error: 24 <p> 25 <form action="/hubbub/post/addPost/nathan" method="post" > 26 <textarea name="content" rows="3" cols="50" id="postContent" ></textarea><br /> 27 <input type="submit" name="post" value="Post" id="post" /> 28 </form> 29 </p> Unmatched </p> encountered. Converting </p> into <p></p>. 30
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Nathan Reilly
Comment 1 2010-02-15 10:14:31 PST
Running 6531.21.10, r54757
Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 2 2010-02-15 10:32:56 PST
This is correct behavior. A p element cannot contain a form element, so when the opening tag for the form is encountered it is considered to implicitly close the p element. When the </p> is later encountered it does not match any open element so a warning is emitted and it is converted in to an empty p element. You can see a visual representation of this at <http://james.html5.org/cgi-bin/parsetree/parsetree.py?source=%3Cp%3E%3Cform%3E%3C%2Fp%3E>. The HTML 5 specification at <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#optional-tags> says the following: A p element's end tag may be omitted if the p element is immediately followed by an address, article, aside, blockquote, dir, div, dl, fieldset, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hgroup, hr, menu, nav, ol, p, pre, section, table, or ul, element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an a element.
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