HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#1

Post by lucb1e » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:11 AM UTC

HTML: font color=”red” becomes green
jsfiddle.net

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#2

Post by shdon » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:18 AM UTC

Cute. Use normal quotes ;) HTML colour parsing for invalidly specified colours is odd to say the least.

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#3

Post by lucb1e » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

shdon wrote: post #2

Cute. Use normal quotes ;) HTML colour parsing for invalidly specified colours is odd to say the least.

Someone sent a friend of mine this code: ”Why is this not working?!” It was puzzling for a few minutes :)

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#4

Post by andybak » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:26 AM UTC

shdon wrote: post #2

Cute. Use normal quotes ;) HTML colour parsing for invalidly specified colours is odd to say the least.

Hard to spot. I can imagine this happening in the real world.

Several blogs engines seem to like automatically converting normal quotes to curly quotes in an attempt to prettify their text rendering. I remember copy and pasting code snippets in the and having to fix this.

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#5

Post by Piskvorrr » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:28 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #3

shdon wrote: post #2

Cute. Use normal quotes ;) HTML colour parsing for invalidly specified colours is odd to say the least.

Someone sent a friend of mine this code: ”Why is this not working?!” It was puzzling for a few minutes :)

With that font, it's obvious straight away; wouldn't want to debug this for sure.

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

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Post by supermatt » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:29 AM UTC

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

  = ”red” 
  = 0red0 (" is not ascii so make 0)
  = 00ed0 (r is not hex so make 0)
  = 00ed00 (pad)

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#7

Post by niqmk » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:30 AM UTC

Not only "red" it's #ff0000 or #ffff00

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#8

Post by nmc » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:31 AM UTC

A recent HN discussion [1] on a less recent Stackoverflow thread [2] has some more examples, and some good answers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6662342

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#9

Post by quarterto » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:33 AM UTC

Wow. I haven't seen a tag in years. My thought processes loading this:

• Ok, that is in fact green.

• I wonder if this is related to the colour name parsing weirdness that was on HN a couple of weeks ago?

• Heeeey, those aren't ASCII quotes!

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

#10

Post by cientifico » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 10:34 AM UTC

I don't know why is considering that as a RGB notation instead of the color red, but following this progression seems correct: http://jsfiddle.net/7ACky/2/

red => #red => #0ed => #ed => #ed0 => #eedd00

Could be this?

EDIT: That was wrong:

red => #red => #0ed => #00ed00 seems the correct one.