Buggy parsing of empty link text

[follower]

When a link is written like this:

[](http://example.com/)

the HTML is generated as:

<a href="http://example.com/" />

By way of comparison GitHub generates it as:

<a href="http://example.com/"></a>

And renders it as:

Interestingly, WebKit seems to handle the <a href="" /> form really badly in the rendering and element inspector. It leaves the link open to the start of the next anchor tag and adds multiple extra tags in the inspector.

[waylan]

Thanks for the report. This is a side effect of using ElementTree -
which is an xml library, not a html library. There is no easy way to
fix this either, aside from writing our own serializer. Although, if
you set output_format="html" (rather than the default "xhtml") this
solves the problem. Not sure what I'm going to do about this problem.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:36 PM, follower
reply@reply.github.com
wrote:

When a link is written like this:

   

the HTML is generated as:

   

By way of comparison GitHub generates it as:

   

And renders it as:

Interestingly, WebKit seems to handle the <a href="" /> form really badly in the rendering and element inspector. It leaves the link open to the start of the next anchor tag and adds multiple extra tags in the inspector.

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