(html) Words directly following closing tag are highlighted as tag names

[SebastianSimon]

Any possible tag name following a closing HTML tag (such as </i>) without whitespace in between is highlighted the same way as the tag name itself: with hljs-name.

This happens in a code block with class="language-html" and hljs.highlightAll(); in version 10.6.0.

Minimal test case:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/10.6.0/styles/default.min.css">
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/10.6.0/highlight.min.js"></script>

<pre><code class="language-html">&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;

&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"/&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;i&gt;Content&lt;/i&gt; Text   &lt;!-- Text treated as normal text. (Correct) --&gt;
  &lt;i&gt;Content&lt;/i&gt;Text    &lt;!-- Text treated as tag name. (Incorrect) --&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;</code></pre>

<pre><code class="language-html">&lt;i&gt;Content&lt;/i&gt; Text     &lt;!-- Text treated as normal text. (Correct) --&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Content&lt;/i&gt;Text      &lt;!-- Text treated as tag name. (Incorrect) --&gt;</code></pre>

<script>hljs.highlightAll();</script>

Code:

<i>Content</i> Text   <!-- Text treated as normal text. -->
<i>Content</i>Text    <!-- Text treated as tag name. -->

Screenshot:

As I said, any possible tag name is highlighted like this: Text, Foo:Text, custom-element, but not 1number.

Expected behavior

GitHub’s highlighting does it correctly. Text should be highlighted as normal text, just like described in the HTML comments in the code.

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I’ve encountered this on Stack Overflow.

[joshgoebel]

Confirm. Closing tag rule probably needs endsParent.