the way ie and firefox rendering html

the html codes "<br \/>" will result different in IE(6) and firefox(2.0.0.12 currently)

IE treats \ as back-splash .. but firefox thinks '\' is a regular character.

The DOM tree generated by IE is what we expect. firefox generates automatically an end-tag for '<br \>' : the </br \>

So. you CAN'T just fetch innerHTML from node with such html codes in it and expect getting the same html string in both IE and firefox.