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Bug 5798 - Deferring end tag eating to after head gives weird errors
Summary: Deferring end tag eating to after head gives weird errors
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2008-06-24 20:01 UTC by Henri Sivonen
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
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Description Henri Sivonen 2008-06-24 20:01:56 UTC 
'After head' is now defined to eat all end tags. If the state is 'in head' and there's a stray end tag, subsequently things happen in the 'after head' state which means that stuff that does belong in <head> is in error but ends up in <head> anyway. Intuitively, the stray end tag is in error, but normal <head> children after it aren't.

It might be worthwhile to adjust things so that the stuff that usually belongs in <head> doesn't emit errors if there was an ignored end tag first.
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2008-06-25 21:16:37 UTC 
Yeah.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2008-06-30 23:42:03 UTC 
Wait, what? A stray end tag in "in head" is ignored as well. Can you give an example of what you mean?
Comment 3 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 13:14:28 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
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This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.