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Bug 338806

Summary:

Unexpected closing comment inserted in Javascript block

Product:

[WebTools] WTP Source Editing

Reporter:

Evgeniy Karyakin <anthropophagite>

Component:

jst.jsp

Assignee:

jst.jsp <jst.jsp-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Nick Sandonato <nsand.dev>

Severity:

major

Priority:

CC:

thatnitind

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 2000

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Example JSP source code	none
Descriptive screenshot	none

Description Evgeniy Karyakin

2011-03-03 08:20:57 EST

Build Identifier: 20090920-1017

Starting type  JSP comment tag <%-- inside <script> tag leads to insertion of two hyphens just before closing </script> tag. When it happens in big long pages no one can spot it the moment it happened, and finally hit by unexpected javascript syntax errors in runtime.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open example JSP file attached and place cursor on line 21.
2. Type JSP comment tag "<%--" (without quotes) symbol by symbol. Keep your eye on closing </script> tag.
3. After typing past hyphen you see two hyphens "--" just before closing script tag.

This happens if there is at least one Java code included between <script> and </script>, see lines 26-28 of the example source code. Remove these lines and this behaviour disappears.

Comment 1 Evgeniy Karyakin

2011-03-03 08:21:48 EST

Created attachment 190260 [details]
Example JSP source code

Comment 2 Evgeniy Karyakin

2011-03-03 08:30:21 EST

Created attachment 190264 [details]
Descriptive screenshot

Comment 3 Nick Sandonato

2011-03-03 08:59:15 EST

Thanks for the bug report. This was fixed in the Helios SR2, which was just recently released.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 320001 ***