FireFox View Source Annoyance

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GAH! :scream: I HATE that Firefox automatically closes what it thinks are html tags when you view source. That screwed a good hour out of my life :bored:

Example, save an html page with:

<test<br>

Open in FF, view source. What do you see?

<test><br>

HELLO! Thats NOT the correct source of that file. Sure, you may wish it wasā€¦ but its not. How aboutā€¦ donā€™t do that?

I went to the FF forums but when I searched I kept getting over 100 posts for my terms and on top of that Im using ver 9 (not 1.0 PR) so it may not exist in the final versionā€¦ can anyone check up on that for me?

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Well i donā€™t remeber seeing thta happen in my fierfox but all these flaws in everyone elses firefoxes is starting to make me thing maybe i should permanantly use IE

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Iā€™ve been trying to make FF my primary browser, but its hard with things like this :-/

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Hmmā€¦ this bug annoys me a little as well. Itā€™s exactly the same issue as one I bug reported - you serve XHTML documents as text/html not text/xml and firefox turns <br /> into <br> :frowning: (itā€™s not fixed in 1.0PR, either :-/)

Itā€™s to do with the way the text in the ā€œView Sourceā€ is produced. Basically, itā€™s actually generated from the parsed structures in the browser - itā€™s not actually just the text in the page.

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Yeah, I figured as much :-/
thanks for confirming it

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Ha Ha Ha lmaoā€¦

I just tried it in 1.0PR and your right it does fix it for you.

Funny cause I pasted it into Dreamweaver and it highlights it yellow as a tag error in the view screen.

Save it and open it and it is gone, go to view source and itā€™s been fixedā€¦

Although how you lost a hour makes no sense to me :h:

If you open the page in firefox it will display correctly so you wouldnā€™t be checking for errors.
If you were debuging then wouldnā€™t you be using Dreamweaver or some other HTML editor which would show you the unclosed tag ?

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the page is created dynamically

8

You wil have to use <

instead of ā€œ<ā€ to make that works.

9

You wil have to use <

instead of ā€œ<ā€ to make that works.

yeh thats it.

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Im not trying to make a < in the html - it was right the way it was. Firefox just showed it as being wrong and that made me go back and try to figure out what was wrong even though nothing was.

Besides, donā€™t you think I would have known that? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

:wink:

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Hahahaā€¦ noā€¦ i thought you were a complete noobieā€¦ :lol:

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Sen and noob canā€™t exist in the same sentence without the word ā€œhelpingā€ :stuck_out_tongue:

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ā€œA noob is helping senā€? :stuck_out_tongue: umm no thatā€™s not right :wink:

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You and I think alike. Although I use fancier words.

:p:

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BTW sen, why is your page still fixed with those unsightly tables?

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shush you

theres nothing wrong with tables

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Tables, no. Tables for layout, yes. :wink: