- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:53:53 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Tommy Thorsen wrote:
>
> I just came across another related problem. Consider the following
> markup:
>
> <!doctype html><select><title>TITLE</title></select>
>
> My version of Firefox moves the title to head, Opera ignores the title
> completely, and the html 5 parsing algorithm produces the following
> peculiar markup:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html>
> <head></head>
> <body>
> <select>TITLE</select>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Should this title be allowed or ignored? Right now we ignore the start
> and end tags, but insert the CDATA into the select element. I'm tempted
> to ignore CDATA unless the current node is an option element in the "in
> select" insertion mode.
What HTML5 does here is compatible with what IE8 does, so I'd rather stick
with that.
> Since we were discussing scripts creating unexpected DOMs, I had to try
> the following:
>
> <!doctype html>
> <script>
> function button_onclick() {
> document.getElementById('myselect').innerHTML = '<title>TITLE</title>';
> alert('title inserted');
> }
> </script>
> <select id="myselect"></select>
> <input type="button" value="Make Title" onclick="button_onclick();" />
>
> On Firefox, the title is inserted into the select element, but does not
> actually work. Opera seems to prevent the title element from being
> inserted into the select element altogether.
Per HTML5, this wouldn't actually put a <title> element in the <select>
(it's the same as the original example). You should test it with
document.createElement and select.appendChild.
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