144293 - Radio buttons don't work properly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Matthias Neeracher]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051005

Ever since Mozilla rc1, the slashdot meta moderation page no longer works
properly for me, since the radio buttons no longer highlight and unhighlight
properly. Visually, I often end up with multiple selections, and apparently, the
form often does not send my proper selection back to the server.

The buttons on that page are all of the form:

This rating is <b>Unfair
<input TYPE="RADIO" NAME="mm1437048" VALUE="-">
<input TYPE="RADIO" NAME="mm1437048" VALUE="0" CHECKED>
<input TYPE="RADIO" NAME="mm1437048" VALUE="+">
Fair</b>&nbsp;&nbsp|&nbsp;


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Become a registered member of slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org it's free)
2. Visit www.slashdot.org
3. Click the link "Have you meta-moderated today?" at the top.
4. Try to fill in the form.


Actual Results:  When I click on the "Fair" radio button, the middle button does
not unhighlight. When I click on the "Unfair" button, all buttons get
unhighlighted. Upon further clicks, the buttons react in a weird manner. The
results sent back are not wwhat is visually displayed, even if ultimately only
one button in each group is highlighted.

Expected Results:  Treat the radio buttons like radio buttons.

This worked fine before rc1 and has been broken in rc1 and rc2.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

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Comment 2

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

Not seeing the problem on trunk, Linux 2002051310.  Lessee what branch looks like.

Comment 3

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

WFM Linux 1.0, post-RC2 at least.  Could be Mac-only.

Comment 4

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

Linux RC2 is fine too.  At least I can click on the - and + radio buttons and
others in the same group get unchecked.

Comment 5

[Yusri Yusof]

I am seeing the reported problem (on radio buttons in my web page) on build
2002052921 on linux. My friend downloaded netscape 6.2 for windows and he too
encountered the same problem.

Comment 6

[Yusri Yusof]

I did some tests. It seems like radio buttons work just fine on a form with no
CSS styles applied. My page I mentioned previuosly that has the problem has some
CSS styles applied to it. Let me isolate what exactly causes the problem.

Comment 7

[Yusri Yusof]

Found the problem! If the radio buttons are not enclosed in a form element
you'll have the problem. I guess not enclosing them in a form is not standard
compliant?

Comment 8

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

That's bug 14445, presumably not this bug since it works.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

If that's the case, this bug is more appropriately Evangelism. Input elements
have no meaning outside a form element.

Comment 10

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

The problem we're discussing right now is not this bug, so it would not go to
Evangelism.  This bug has not been reproduced successfully yet.

Comment 11

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

There have been a number of fixes to radio buttons, and I cannot reproduce this
on  WinXP 2002120208 *or* MacOSX 2002120308.  For that matter, MacOSX 7.0 seems
to be fixed as well.

Reopen if you still see this.