Recently I’ve been playing with Web Standards and Ajax. I noticed an interesting bug (or feature?) of Firefox while digging into the almighty CSS.
Environment:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
- Windows Server 2003 R2
Description:
Firefox renders some HTML elements which are not expected to be displayed, when their display CSS property is set to a value other than none.
Elements like <title>, <style> or <script> are not for display purpose. By default, their display CSS property is none. However, these elements, like <span> and <div>, are part of the DOM structure thus we can specify any property for them. What would happen if I specify display:block for all elements?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312" />
<title>Firefox bug</title>
<style type="text/css">
/* CSS source is displayed*/
* {
display:block;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
var msg = "javascript is displayed, too.";
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Bug: Why does firefox display the source code? :)</p>
</body>
</html>
The universal selector * matches all elements including <title>, <style> and <script>. Firefox displays the page as follows.
This seems buggy to any end-user but is technically reasonable. It indicates that Firefox treats all html elements in a uniform way. However, according to the semantic meaning, those elements should never be rendered.
Arrix Live Space 
最近没有看到你写的东西呢
不觉得是bug.
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