32799 - textarea.defaultValue and textarea.value returns null

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P2)

Description

[Jan Carpenter]

Overview Description: 
textarea.defaultValue should hold the initial value of the textarea, but it does 
not seem to be being stored there.

Steps to Reproduce: 
- see testcase

Actual Results: 
[nothing]

Expected Results: 
"default value 1"

Build Date & Platform Bug Found: 
all platforms
2000-03-21-06

Comment 1

[Jan Carpenter]

Attachment: attaching testcase

Comment 2

[Jim Roskind]

If there are any known sites where this is problematic, please identify them ASAP.
Thanks,
Jim

Comment 3

[leger]

Putting on the PDT- radar for beta.

Comment 4

[Jan Carpenter]

adding beta2 keyword, and removing pdt status

Comment 5

[Paul MacQuiddy]

removing beta1 keyword so it doesn't show up on beta1 radar

Comment 6

[leger]

Sending to rickg for advice on PR2 stopper.

Comment 7

[rickg]

Marking beta2+

Comment 8

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

I just checked in a fix for this, marking FIXED.

Comment 9

[Jan Carpenter]

verified fixed

Comment 10

[Sivakiran Tummala]

reopening bug, textarea.value and textarea.defaultvalue returns null. This is a
regression from 6.2, adding keyword regression. 

Comment 11

[Sivakiran Tummala]

changing to dom html from dom other

Comment 12

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

The testcase here does getAttribute("defaultValue") rather than DOM
.defaultValue.   getAttribute() gets the HTML attribute which, as you can see,
does not exist on textarea.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.7

RESOLVING back to FIXED because presumably Johnny actually fixed something.

Comment 13

[Sivakiran Tummala]

verified