HTML link, style, and script elements are erroneously removed by QWebKit from the head element
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When I inspect the HTML loaded into webkit using the toHtml method (or the toOuterXml method) I find that the Qt webkit methods produce erroneous results for elements in the head element.
For example, I used QWebView to display the following HTML:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>head test</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />.
<link href="sample.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script></script>
<style>p{font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:20px;}</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>test paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
@When I try to inspect the loaded HTML using;
@qDebug()<<ui->webView->page()->mainFrame()->toHtml();@I get the following result:
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"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
<title>head test</title>
<meta charset="utf-8"></head><body>.
<link href="sample.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script></script>
<style>p{font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:20px;}</style><p>test paragraph</p>
</body></html>"
@Notice that the <style> , <link> , and <<script> elements are all erroneously moved into the body element from the head element.
Has anyone else encountered this. If so, do they have a solution?
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maybe because there is a point after the meta-element which causes a parsing error and webkit tries to repair this.
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After doing some more investigation of the file I'd copied to form my test case I found some unexpected Unicode control characters after the meta tag that displayed as a dot(point). After removing these characters everything worked ok.
Since I am constrained to using HTML generated elsewhere I'll have to preprocess the source HTML but I am a little surprised that WebKit didn't throw an error. In fact I'm now curious as to why WebKit processed a link element it thought was a child of the body element in violation of the specifications!
