Using <html> <body> html tags in JIRA issue breaks the page

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      Summary

      • Using the html tags such as <html>, <body>, </body> , </html> in the description or comment of a JIRA issue will cause the JIRA Issue screen to break.
      • For example using this HTML Snippet :
        {html}<html>
        <body>
        <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8pt">testing html</span></font></div>
        </body>
        </html>{html}
        

      Steps to Reproduce

      1. Enable HTML as per :

      2. Create an issue and insert this code snippet on ether the description or comment or both sections of the JIRA issue :

      {html}<html>
      <body>
      <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8pt">testing html</span></font></div>
      </body>
      </html>{html}
      

      3. Refresh the page

      Expected Results

      • JIRA Issue view should not break

      Actual Results

      • JIRA Issue breaks

      Workaround

      Remove the <html><body> tags. Instead only use :

      {{html}}
      

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            Assignee:
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            Reporter:
            Adrian Stephen (Inactive)
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