[TAP5-401] When rendering HTML content (not XML) Tapestry should always render open and close tags for most elements, even if the content is empty

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.17
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.18
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 04/Dec/08 17:08
• Updated: 04/Feb/09 13:11
• Resolved: 04/Dec/08 17:43

Description

This is really backporting the behavior in the trunk (5.1) to say that "br", "hr" and "img" can render as empty tags and everything else should render fully. This is all about browser quirks, some (especially IE) get very confused by empty XML-style elements.

Issue Links

• relates to: TAP5-495 All simple tag elements in XHTML header converted to elements with start and end tag