228020 - CSS generated content breaks form submission

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[joey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031120 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031120 Firebird/0.7

If you will view the demonstration URL, you'll see that I'm trying to use CSS to
generate labels that are NOT to be part of the semantic markup (hence the reason
I'm not using <label>). When I use the CSS "content:" property on an input,
Mozilla/Firebird will not pass the data I entered into the input.

I thought this might be somewhat related to 155957, but the breakage seems much
more fundamental.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit demo URL
2. Enter some data
3. Press submit
4. Look at your URL

Actual Results:  
The data values didn't get passed to the form action

Comment 1

[joey]

*** Bug 228019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Confirmed on WinXP SP1 trunk 2003120608.
Moving to All/All, Browser: HTML Form Submission
Agreed Critical, since it causes dataloss.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> I thought this might be somewhat related to 155957,

Related like an identical twin, really... I'll be posting the patch in that bug.

Comment 4

[joey]

All right, I apologize for the dup, then. The other seemed to focus on caret
placement, which appears to work fine for me...it's the acutal values that are
broken here.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well, it's hard to know that they are really the same problem without looking at
the code.  ;)

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed for 1.6 by patch in bug 155957