Improve behavior for parsing option end tags #11764
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This PR moves the steps to clone an option element into a selectedcontent element from the parsing of an option end tag to a paragraph which specifies that this should happen any time an option is popped off the stack of open elements, which will make the algorithm run even if the author didn't explicitly write a closing option tag. This was found here: whatwg#11653
zcorpan
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annevk
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| <div algorithm> | ||
| <p>When an <code>option</code> element is popped off the <span>stack of open elements</span> of an | ||
| <span>HTML parser</span> or <span>XML parser</span>, the user agent must run <span>maybe clone an | ||
| option into selectedcontent</span> given the <code>option</code>.</p> |
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| option into selectedcontent</span> given the <code>option</code>.</p> | |
| option into selectedcontent</span> given the <code>option</code> element.</p> |
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This PR moves the steps to clone an option element into a selectedcontent element from the parsing of an option end tag to a paragraph which specifies that this should happen any time an option is popped off the stack of open elements, which will make the algorithm run even if the author didn't explicitly write a closing option tag.
This was found here: #11653
(See WHATWG Working Mode: Changes for more details.)
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