Re: Glitch with tables and AjaxUpdateContainer

On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Ray Kiddy wrote:

> 
> It is great when this stuff works, but, boy, is it a PITA when it does not. Does anyone have a fix strategy for Ajax issues, other than head-scratching and random changing things around to see what might work?


Validate your html :-) 

http://validator.w3.org/


> 
> So, here is something I spent entirely too much time dealing with. These two display the same. One may obviously be more correct HTML, but neither one makes browsers do bad things.
> 
> This does NOT work:
> 
> <table>
> 	<wo:form>
> 		<wo:loop>
> 			<tr>
> 				<td><AUC /></td>
> 			</tr>
> 		</wo:loop>
> 		<tr><td><wo:submit /></td></tr>
> 	</wo:form>
> </table>
> 
> This DOES work:
> 
> <wo:form>
> 	<table>
> 		<wo:loop>
> 			<tr>
> 				<td><AUC /></td>
> 			</tr>
> 		</wo:loop>
> 		<tr><td><wo:submit /></td></tr>
> 	</table>
> </wo:form>
> 
> What. The-F. Ever!
> 
> Really annoying, but there it is. No idea why. But fine.
> 
> - ray

When the <form> element (or some other block element) is inserted there, I suspect the browser automatically closes the table tag. Here's another page I refer to a lot:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_byfunc.asp

Tables should only contain table elements. Except td/th. Those can contain whatever you want.

The problems I've primarily had with AUC come from inserting html entities when serving as application/xhtml+xml mime type.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445166

We should really convert all the html entities in wonder to numbered entities instead. (example: &nbsp; -> &#160; )

Ramsey



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