Safari CSS class-name substring parsing bug

Written July 7. 2003, at 12:23 GMT.

Safari v1.0 has a CSS class-name parsing bug that makes it ignore a CSS class name applied to an HTML element, if this same element has multiple class names assigned to it, and if one of the class names contains one of the others as a substring. (for example class="firedream red") this makes safari ignore the class name "red" for that particular HTML element.

I've set up a page with a reduced test case for this bug, and I hope that Dave Hyatt and friends will be able to fix it in the next release of Safari.

BTW, this bug sucks even worse because it conflicts with the awful CSS whitespace parsing bug in IE5/Mac.

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