[whatwg] "nobr" is not an active formatting element
Dave Hyatt
hyatt at apple.com
Mon Jun 18 15:01:43 PDT 2007
Hmmm, I'll have to investigate further. I think in the reduction a
<table> followed the <div>.
dave
Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dave Hyatt wrote:
>
>> <nobr> is an active formatting element for us in our WebKit nightlies,
>> and it has caused compat problems. Search for something in froogle to
>> see a nice big rendering error caused by us reopening <nobr> across a
>> </div>.
>>
>
> IE doesn't close the <nobr> at a </div>. There are other differences
> between IE and Safari here; are you sure that this is what is causing the
> problem?
>
> Take this test case:
>
> http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%3Cstyle%3Ebody%20%7B%20border%3A%20solid%3B%20width%3A%204em%3B%20%7D%3C/style%3E%0D%0A%3Cdiv%3Ea%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%20a%3Cnobr%3Eb%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%20b%3C/div%3Ec%20c%20c%20c%20c%20c%20c%20c%20c%20c%20c%20c
>
> Opera, Safari, and IE all render it the same. Only Firefox does it
> differently, and precisely because of not treating <nobr> as reopening
> across a </div>.
>
>
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