Base Tag Greyed Out

bsmither

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Apr 25, 2016, 9:08:07 PM4/25/16

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I notice that in the HTML tag, the statement:

<base href="ProjK" />

is greyed out.

Is there something about that statement that Firebug doesn't like?

Sebastian Zartner

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Apr 26, 2016, 1:36:20 AM4/26/16

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If an element is grayed out, it means it is not displayed.
See https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/HTML_Panel#Node_View.

Sebastian

bsmither

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Apr 26, 2016, 2:55:29 PM4/26/16

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Technically and practically, everything in the <head> section does not get displayed. (I should have mentioned the <base> tag is the first tag that should appear in the <head> section, and that is where it is at.)

Yet, of everything in the <head> section, only the <base> tag is dimmed.

Sebastian Zartner

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Apr 26, 2016, 5:18:28 PM4/26/16

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I just checked the related code. This is obviously because all those tags except <base> are special cased to be displayed normally instead of being dimmed.
See https://github.com/firebug/firebug/blob/master/extension/content/firebug/lib/xml.js#L579-L639.
So, it looks like the <base> tag simply got missed when the list of exception tags got created.

Note that the Firefox DevTools do a better job here. They don't have those exceptions and display all those tags slightly faint.
And as Firebug 3 will integrate into the DevTools, it will be fixed once that version is released.

Sebastian

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