- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:34:06 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > The parsing section says that a linefeed character following a pre start > tag token is dropped, and the syntax section says that when serializing > a linefeed must be included if the pre starts with a linefeed. So far so > good. > > However, getting .innerHTML doesn't add the newline. Thus, if you parse > and serialize with .innerHTML several times you keep eating linefeeds > from pre. I think this is a problem. > > Step 2 in the algorithm for getting .innerHTML, "If the child node is an > Element", should include something along the following lines (some after > the "Append a U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN (>) character." paragraph): > > If the child node is an Element with a tag name pre then append a U+000A > LINE FEED (LF) character. > > This will always add the linefeed even when it's not needed, but I guess > that's fine. Fixed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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