182155 - Form badly displayed and unusable when HTML starts by <form> tag

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Herve FOUCHER]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

When your HTML file starts with <form>(*), the form is badly interpreted and
doesn't work at all.

(*) I know... it shouldn't but this is done by webmasters when testing forms

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create the following file (no leading characters):
<form method="get" action="http://destination/url.php">
<input name="number" value="1"><input type="submit" value="OK">
</form>
2. Press the submit button (OK button)
Actual Results:  
When pressing OK button, the browser doesn't jump to http://destination/url.php
but instead remain on the same page and append a ? in the URL field.

Expected Results:  
Should have lead user to http://destination/url.php?number=1

Workarround: insert text before the FORM tag:
<p>Text</p>
<form method="get" action="http://destination/url.php">
<input name="number" value="1"><input type="submit" value="OK">
</form>

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

testcase worksforme, linux trunk build 2002-11-25-12

Comment 3

[Daniel de Wildt]

I can confirm this bug on the testcase with Windows 2000
build: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

Comment 4

[HARUNAGA Hirotoshi]

occurs only on 1.2, not on trunk.

Comment 5

[Daniel de Wildt]

Testcase works with Windows 2000 build 2002-11-20-08

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This is 1.2-branch only.  See bug 182500.

Comment 7

[Alexandru Savulov]

*** Bug 182580 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Alexandru Savulov]

*** Bug 182696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I have tested that this bug was an instance of bug 182500 / bug 182253 based on
comparison of two Linux builds compiled with gcc 3.2.  This bug was present in
the 1.2 release and was the only bug fixed in the 1.2.1 release (and the reason
for the 1.2.1 release).

Marking this bug as fixed since it should be fixed in the 1.2.1 release.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 183801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Kenneth Herron]

*** Bug 183862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***