bugcgicc - Bugs: bug #33305, malformed <col> Tag

 
 

bug #33305: malformed <col> Tag

Submitter:  Andreas Kirsch <kirsche40>
Submitted:  Fri 13 May 2011 01:13:02 PM UTC
Votes: 10
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Need Info
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  sebdiaz
Open/Closed:  Open
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Fri 28 Mar 2014 01:34:03 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Sorry, the " />" (HTML5) in my previous comment #4 should have been " />" (XHTML) instead.

Thomas Straub <tomstraub>
Fri 28 Mar 2014 12:59:46 PM UTC, comment #4: 

It is true HTML expects only <col ...> type elements, and XHTML expects <col ... /> elements, but I have found in practice it doesn't really matter. The <col> elements is one of the most non-standard elements known. In some browsers, I have seen where even <col ...></col> works just fine. As far as I can tell, HTML5 defines the <col> tag as ATOMIC, so I think a simple check when generating ATOMIC elements to see if generating XMTML vs HTML would suffice to determine if to generate a ">" (HTML) or " />" (HTML5) ending tag for all ATOMIC elements would be sufficient.

 Thomas Straub <tomstraub>
Mon 14 Jan 2013 01:39:15 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I apologize for the wrong document type example at the end of my last comment. A correct line could be

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

 Andreas Kirsch <kirsche40>
Mon 14 Jan 2013 01:01:31 PM UTC, comment #2: 

The error depends on used specification: HTML vs. XHTML. In HTML a col element must have a start tag but must not have an end tag. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/col.html. In XHTML every tag shall have an end tag.


Here is a sample to be able to reproduce the issue.

If you generate a colgroup using:

cout << table().set("border", "1") << endl;
cout << colgroup() << endl;
cout << col().set("width", "80") << endl;
cout << col().set("width", "100") << endl;
cout << col().set("width", "320") << endl;
cout << colgroup() << endl;
cout << tr() << endl;
cout << td("text 1") << endl;
cout << td("text 2") << endl;
cout << td("tewt 3") << endl;
cout << tr() << endl;
cout << table() << endl;


You will get the following HTML output where you can see the closing tag of col element:

<table border="1" >
<colgroup>
<col width="80"  />
<col width="100"  />
<col width="320"  />
</colgroup>
<tr>
<td>text 1</td>
<td>text 2</td>
<td>text 3</td>
</tr>
</table>


We have to check the HTML tag for the document type if we are HTML or XHTML. In my case it is

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de" >
<head>
[...]

 Andreas Kirsch <kirsche40>
Sat 12 Jan 2013 08:05:45 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I need more sample to analyse your problem.

The col is purely standalone and should terminate as <col/>






More samples to analyze this bug

 sebastien diaz <sebdiaz>
Group administrator
Fri 13 May 2011 01:13:02 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

the tag <col> is malformed if you use the build in command col() for defining a colgroup. It contains a not allowed '/' before closing bracket.

 Andreas Kirsch <kirsche40>

 

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