bug#50539: Don't use comment colors in HTML textareas

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>> I spent a couple minutes to say whether there's any standard that
>> says whether <!-- comments are allowed in PCDATA or not, but I'd
>> assume so. Does anybody know for sure?
>
> I'm not absolutely sure, but AFAIK all HTML tags are rendered as is in
> a text area, not only <!-- comments.

Firefox does that:

<textarea>
<p>
</textarea>

But not for

<textarea>
</textarea>
</textarea>

:-)

But, like I said, the contents here are defined to be PCDATA, so this is
just Firefox (and probably Chrome, too) just being generous and trying
to interpret as they guess the writer intended.

HTML-mode also highlights the <p> as if it's a tag...  which it is,
even if Firefox doesn't interpret it as such.

So I think, on the whole, that html-mode does everything correctly here,
and I'm closing this bug report.

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