[Bug 24801] New: <option> content model

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24801

            Bug ID: 24801
           Summary: <option> content model
           Product: Nu Markup Checker
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: General
          Assignee: mike+validator@w3.org
          Reporter: master.skywalker.88@gmail.com
        QA Contact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org

Just tried to validate a document with a <option> element.
The syntax for the specific fragment was as follows:

      <select>
       <option label="Opel" value="opel"></option>
       <option label="Audi" value="audi" />
      </select>

The second option (Audi) has a label and a value, so according to the specs it
admits an empty content model as well as end tag omission. I use the XHTML
syntax which is allowed in HTML (though it has no effect).

The response from the validator is error. More precisely
Self-closing syntax (/>) used on a non-void HTML element. Ignoring the slash
and treating as a start tag.

Which is somehow confusing, as in this structure the option element is
effectively treated as void (it cannot have both label+value and content). 
In fact when validating the same document as XHTML, the validator flags
nothing. If the problem is in using the self-closing syntax in a non-void
element, then the element is non-void as both HTML and XHTML (the validation
for the latter does not take into account only well-formedness) and XHTML
validation must report it accordingly.
If, on the contrary, there's a bug in the validator not recognizing the void
element, then it's HTML validator which must be corrected. It's the same issue
as "<menuitem> content model" that I sent some weeks ago (still unresponded).

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Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:04:57 UTC