Re: [whatwg] Handling inside <body></span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=whatwg@lists.whatwg.org&q=from:%22Ian+Hickson%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Ian Hickson</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=whatwg@lists.whatwg.org&q=date:20081201" rel="nofollow">Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:53:59 -0800</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre>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.</pre><pre> 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. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ln.hixie.ch/">http://ln.hixie.ch/</a> U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. 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