Oh, good, html5lib correctly handles literals in <textarea> tags.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_html5lib.py b/tests/test_html5lib.py
index 3045b02..336f9a5 100644
--- a/tests/test_html5lib.py
+++ b/tests/test_html5lib.py
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ class TestHTML5Builder(TestLXMLBuilder):
             "<tbody><tr><td>Bar</td></tr></tbody>"
             "<tfoot><tr><td>Baz</td></tr></tfoot></table>")
 
+    def test_literal_in_textarea(self):
+        markup = '<textarea>Junk like <b> tags and <&<&amp;</textarea>'
+        soup = self.soup(markup)
+        self.assertEquals(
+            soup.textarea.contents, ["Junk like <b> tags and <&<&"])
+
     def test_collapsed_whitespace(self):
         """Whitespace is preserved even in tags that don't require it."""
         self.assertSoupEquals("<p>   </p>")