[TRINIDAD-997] <span> tag with no attributes is not rendered when using Trinidad

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.6-core
• Component/s: Components, Facelets, Skinning
• Assignee: Scott O'Bryan
• Reporter: Jonathan Herr
• Created: 07/Mar/08 16:17
• Updated: 12/Apr/11 17:46

Description

We recently integrated Trinidad into our application to evaluate it. Immediately we noticed that most pages would not render correctly. We discovered the problem was that if a <span> tag had no attributes (id, class, etc.), it would not be rendered. For example:

<span>
<label>Example</label>
<input type="text" value="exampleInput"></input>
</span>

Renders as:

<label>Example</label>
<input type="text" value="exampleInput"></input>

In most applications this would not matter since by default the <span> tag has no style, but we overrode the CSS of the <span> tag to have very unique styles:

form fieldset span

{ position: relative; display: block; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 6px; overflow: hidden; }

If the <span> tag was removed, we lost these styles and the page would be very distorted.

Our only workaround right now is to update the hundreds of <span> tags throughout our application and give them a class attribute so they will render.