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Asked: 2026-05-11T01:39:12+00:00

I’m trying to fix a bug in a rich text editor I’m using, which

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I’m trying to fix a bug in a rich text editor I’m using, which causes <embed> tags to be inserted without their closing tag (which screws the output up completely). I’ve isolated the problem to this operation:

// body is a <body> tag body.innerHTML = '<embed src='http://example.com/whatever'></embed>';

No fancy code, just Firefox’s innerHTML assignment. You should be able to duplicate the error in Firebug like so:

>>> document.body.innerHTML = '<embed></embed>' '<embed></embed>' >>> document.body.innerHTML '<embed>'

Is there a workaround for this? I need the tag, but I can’t justify rebuilding/replacing the entire rich text editor because of one crappy edge case.

I can’t convert this to something like document.createElement('embed'), because real-world input to this editor can easily include a few paragraphs of text wrapped around the <embed>; innerHTML is, on paper, perfect for this use case, I just can’t get it to work with an <embed>.

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  1. This might not be an answer to your problem, but <embed> was not part of any standardized version of HTML until HTML5, according to W3C.

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