Closed Bug 282461 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

a pull-down menu in an asp dosent populate, yet another similar one on the same page does

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

this may not actually be a mozilla BUG per se, but it is something that internet
explorer does and firefox/mozilla have not for a long time, and also the only
reason i have to use internet explorer.
our company maintains www.leadertelegram.com, which has a management backend
written in asp.  i am not a web developer, or any kind of programmer, but i will
try to be as detailed as i can.  
the management page has an 'add article' function, which has on it two pull-down
controls which are populated with the article categories, a hard-coded list, and
then the article sub-categories, which is populated from hard-coded lists
dynamically when a category is selected.
this seems to work fine in internet explorer, but in mozilla/firefox the
pulldown is displayed, but only its default value is displayed, it is never
repopulated with subcategory lists.
this is probably some stupid internet explorer proprietary **** that shouldn't
work anyways, but i would be curious to know of workarounds too, i may convince
someone to change their code.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.select a category in the category pulldown menu



Actual Results:  
2.check the subcategory list, still has not been updated

Expected Results:  
should replace [select subcategory] text with list of subcategories (there is 2
dimensional array of strings containing subcategory names)

here are some parts of the code in question
i did NOT write this code, i havent really done any serious web programming, so
im just approximating what code i think is the problem.  if anyone is interested
i can supply the entire page but i just cant provide live access to our internal
page.

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*** below is the list of SUB categories being populated initially at the
beginning of the page ***
*******************************************************************************

//create ourlink list of different model Series
var oModelSeries = new OptionCollection();

oModelSeries.Add("1","FrontPage1","1");
oModelSeries.Add("2","FrontPage2","1");
oModelSeries.Add("3","FrontPage3","1");
oModelSeries.Add("4","FrontPage4","1");
oModelSeries.Add("5","FrontPage5","1");
oModelSeries.Add("184","NewsFlash","1");
oModelSeries.Add("155","Update","1");
oModelSeries.Add("6","Local News1","2");
oModelSeries.Add("7","Local News2","2");
oModelSeries.Add("8","Local News3","2");
oModelSeries.Add("9","Local News4","2");
oModelSeries.Add("10","Local News5","2");
oModelSeries.Add("11","Local News6","2");
oModelSeries.Add("12","Local News7","2");
oModelSeries.Add("13","Local News8","2");
oModelSeries.Add("14","Local News9","2");
oModelSeries.Add("15","Local News10","2");
oModelSeries.Add("16","Columnists - Crossroads - Chuck Rupnow","2");
oModelSeries.Add("17","Columnists - Crossroads - Chris Vetter","2");
oModelSeries.Add("18","Columnists - Crossroads - Alyssa Waters","2");
oModelSeries.Add("19","Columnists - Crossroads - Pamela Powers","2");
oModelSeries.Add("20","Columnists - Crossroads - Stephanie Ulcej","2");
oModelSeries.Add("21","Columnists - Crossroads - Joe Knight","2");
oModelSeries.Add("22","Columnists - Knight Life - Joe Knight","2");
oModelSeries.Add("23","Columnists - OffBeat - Eric Lindquist","2");
oModelSeries.Add("24","Columnists - OffBeat - Tom Giffey","2");
oModelSeries.Add("25","Columnists - OffBeat - Troy Espe","2");
oModelSeries.Add("26","Columnists - OffBeat - Christena O'Brien","2");
oModelSeries.Add("27","Columnists - OffBeat - Michael Klein","2");
oModelSeries.Add("28","Columnists - OffBeat - Jerry Poling","2");
oModelSeries.Add("29","Columnists - OffBeat - Susan Barber","2");
oModelSeries.Add("30","Columnists - OffBeat - Julian Emerson","2");
oModelSeries.Add("31","Columnists - Entertainment1","2");
oModelSeries.Add("32","Columnists - Entertainment2","2");
oModelSeries.Add("33","Columnists - Entertainment3","2");
oModelSeries.Add("34","Columnists - Etc","2");
oModelSeries.Add("35","Police Report","2");
oModelSeries.Add("36","State News1","3");
oModelSeries.Add("37","State News2","3");
oModelSeries.Add("38","State News3","3");
oModelSeries.Add("39","State News4","3");
oModelSeries.Add("40","State News5","3");
oModelSeries.Add("41","Local Sports - College1","4");
oModelSeries.Add("42","Local Sports - College2","4");
oModelSeries.Add("43","Local Sports - College3","4");
oModelSeries.Add("44","Local Sports - College4","4");
oModelSeries.Add("45","Local Sports - College5","4");
oModelSeries.Add("46","Local Sports - College6","4");
oModelSeries.Add("47","Local Sports - College7","4");
oModelSeries.Add("48","Local Sports - College8","4");
oModelSeries.Add("49","Local Sports - College9","4");
oModelSeries.Add("50","Local Sports - College10","4");
oModelSeries.Add("51","Local Sports - Preps1","5");
oModelSeries.Add("52","Local Sports - Preps2","5");
oModelSeries.Add("53","Local Sports - Preps3","5");
oModelSeries.Add("54","Local Sports - Preps4","5");
oModelSeries.Add("55","Local Sports - Preps5","5");
oModelSeries.Add("56","Local Sports - Preps6","5");
oModelSeries.Add("57","Local Sports - Preps7","5");
oModelSeries.Add("58","Local Sports - Preps8","5");
oModelSeries.Add("59","Local Sports - Preps9","5");
oModelSeries.Add("60","Local Sports - Preps10","5");
oModelSeries.Add("61","Local Sports - Community1","6");
oModelSeries.Add("62","Local Sports - Community2","6");
oModelSeries.Add("63","Local Sports - Community3","6");
oModelSeries.Add("64","Local Sports - Community4","6");
oModelSeries.Add("65","Local Sports - Community5","6");
oModelSeries.Add("66","Local Sports - Community6","6");
oModelSeries.Add("67","Local Sports - Community7","6");
oModelSeries.Add("68","Local Sports - Community8","6");
oModelSeries.Add("69","Local Sports - Community9","6");
oModelSeries.Add("70","Local Sports - Community10","6");
oModelSeries.Add("71","Entertainment1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("72","Entertainment2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("73","Entertainment3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("74","Senior Life1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("75","Senior Life2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("76","Senior Life3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("77","Food1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("78","Food2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("79","Food3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("80","Health1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("81","Health2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("82","Health3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("83","Online1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("84","Online2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("85","Online3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("86","Parenting1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("87","Parenting2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("88","Parenting3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("89","Getting Out1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("90","Getting Out2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("91","Getting Out3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("92","Religion1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("93","Religion2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("94","Religion3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("95","Home and Garden1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("96","Home and Garden2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("97","Home and Garden3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("98","Lifestyles1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("99","Lifestyles2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("100","Lifestyles3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("101","West-Central1","7");
oModelSeries.Add("102","West-Central2","7");
oModelSeries.Add("103","West-Central3","7");
oModelSeries.Add("104","Business1","8");
oModelSeries.Add("105","Business2","8");
oModelSeries.Add("106","Business3","8");
oModelSeries.Add("107","Editorials1","9");
oModelSeries.Add("108","Editorials2","9");
oModelSeries.Add("109","Editorials3","9");
oModelSeries.Add("110","Voice of the People1","9");
oModelSeries.Add("111","Voice of the People2","9");
oModelSeries.Add("112","Voice of the People3","9");
oModelSeries.Add("113","Voice of the People4","9");
oModelSeries.Add("114","Voice of the People5","9");
oModelSeries.Add("115","Voice of the People6","9");
oModelSeries.Add("116","Voice of the People7","9");
oModelSeries.Add("117","Voice of the People8","9");
oModelSeries.Add("118","Voice of the People9","9");
oModelSeries.Add("119","Voice of the People10","9");
oModelSeries.Add("120","Polls and Interact - Poll1","9");
oModelSeries.Add("121","Polls and Interact - Poll2","9");
oModelSeries.Add("122","Polls and Interact - Poll3","9");
oModelSeries.Add("123","Polls and Interact - Message Board","9");
oModelSeries.Add("124","Polls and Interact - Contact Us","9");
oModelSeries.Add("125","Obituaries1","10");
oModelSeries.Add("126","Obituaries2","10");
oModelSeries.Add("127","Obituaries3","10");
oModelSeries.Add("128","Obituaries4","10");
oModelSeries.Add("129","Obituaries5","10");
oModelSeries.Add("130","Obituaries6","10");
oModelSeries.Add("131","Obituaries7","10");
oModelSeries.Add("132","Obituaries8","10");
oModelSeries.Add("133","Obituaries9","10");
oModelSeries.Add("134","Obituaries10","10");
oModelSeries.Add("135","Obituaries11","10");
oModelSeries.Add("136","Obituaries12","10");
oModelSeries.Add("137","Obituaries13","10");
oModelSeries.Add("138","Obituaries14","10");
oModelSeries.Add("139","Obituaries15","10");
oModelSeries.Add("140","Obituaries16","10");
oModelSeries.Add("141","Obituaries17","10");
oModelSeries.Add("142","Obituaries18","10");
oModelSeries.Add("143","Obituaries19","10");
oModelSeries.Add("144","Obituaries20","10");
oModelSeries.Add("145","Death Notices","10");
oModelSeries.Add("146","Archives","11");
oModelSeries.Add("147","Moments in Life","11");
oModelSeries.Add("148","Photo Gallery","11");
oModelSeries.Add("149","News Links","11");
oModelSeries.Add("150","Lottery Results","11");
oModelSeries.Add("151","Site Map","12");
oModelSeries.Add("152","FAQs","12");
oModelSeries.Add("153","Ethics Code","12");
oModelSeries.Add("154","Contact Us","12");
oModelSeries.Add("156","Entertainment4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("157","Entertainment5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("158","Senior Life4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("159","Senior Life5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("160","Food4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("161","Food5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("162","Health4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("163","Health5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("164","Online4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("165","Online5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("166","Parenting4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("167","Parenting5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("168","Getting Out4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("169","Getting Out5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("170","Religion4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("171","Religion5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("172","Home and Garden4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("173","Home and Garden5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("174","Lifestyles4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("175","Lifestyles5","7");
oModelSeries.Add("176","West-Central4","7");
oModelSeries.Add("177","West-Central","7");
oModelSeries.Add("178","Business4","8");
oModelSeries.Add("179","Business5","8");
oModelSeries.Add("180","Editorials4","9");
oModelSeries.Add("181","Editorials5","9");
oModelSeries.Add("182","Polls and Interact-Poll4","9");
oModelSeries.Add("183","Polls and Interact-Poll5","9");
oModelSeries.Add("185","Sports1","13");
oModelSeries.Add("186","Sports2","13");
oModelSeries.Add("187","Sports3","13");
oModelSeries.Add("188","Sports4","13");
oModelSeries.Add("189","Sports5","13");
oModelSeries.Add("190","Moments-Weddings1","14");
oModelSeries.Add("191","Moments-Weddings2","14");
oModelSeries.Add("192","Moments-Weddings3","14");
oModelSeries.Add("193","Moments-Weddings4","14");
oModelSeries.Add("194","Moments-Weddings5","14");
oModelSeries.Add("195","Moments-Weddings6","14");
oModelSeries.Add("196","Moments-Weddings7","14");
oModelSeries.Add("197","Moments-Weddings8","14");
oModelSeries.Add("198","Moments-Weddings9","14");
oModelSeries.Add("199","Moments-Weddings10","14");
oModelSeries.Add("200","Moments-Weddings11","14");
oModelSeries.Add("201","Moments-Weddings12","14");
oModelSeries.Add("202","Moments-Weddings13","14");
oModelSeries.Add("203","Moments-Weddings14","14");
oModelSeries.Add("204","Moments-Weddings15","14");
oModelSeries.Add("205","Moments-Weddings16","14");
oModelSeries.Add("206","Moments-Weddings17","14");
oModelSeries.Add("207","Moments-Weddings18","14");
oModelSeries.Add("208","Moments-Weddings19","14");
oModelSeries.Add("209","Moments-Weddings20","14");
oModelSeries.Add("210","Moments-Weddings21","14");
oModelSeries.Add("211","Moments-Weddings22","14");
oModelSeries.Add("212","Moments-Weddings23","14");
oModelSeries.Add("213","Moments-Weddings24","14");
oModelSeries.Add("214","Moments-Weddings25","14");
oModelSeries.Add("215","Moments-Weddings26","14");
oModelSeries.Add("216","Moments-Weddings27","14");
oModelSeries.Add("217","Moments-Weddings28","14");
oModelSeries.Add("218","Moments-Weddings29","14");
oModelSeries.Add("219","Moments-Weddings30","14");
oModelSeries.Add("220","Moments-Engagements1","15");
oModelSeries.Add("221","Moments-Engagements2","15");
oModelSeries.Add("222","Moments-Engagements3","15");
oModelSeries.Add("223","Moments-Engagements4","15");
oModelSeries.Add("224","Moments-Engagements5","15");
oModelSeries.Add("225","Moments-Engagements6","15");
oModelSeries.Add("226","Moments-Engagements7","15");
oModelSeries.Add("227","Moments-Engagements8","15");
oModelSeries.Add("228","Moments-Engagements9","15");
oModelSeries.Add("229","Moments-Engagements10","15");
oModelSeries.Add("230","Moments-Engagements11","15");
oModelSeries.Add("231","Moments-Engagements12","15");
oModelSeries.Add("232","Moments-Engagements13","15");
oModelSeries.Add("233","Moments-Engagements14","15");
oModelSeries.Add("234","Moments-Engagements15","15");
oModelSeries.Add("235","Moments-Engagements16","15");
oModelSeries.Add("236","Moments-Engagements17","15");
oModelSeries.Add("237","Moments-Engagements18","15");
oModelSeries.Add("238","Moments-Engagements19","15");
oModelSeries.Add("239","Moments-Engagements20","15");
oModelSeries.Add("240","Moments-Engagements21","15");
oModelSeries.Add("241","Moments-Engagements22","15");
oModelSeries.Add("242","Moments-Engagements23","15");
oModelSeries.Add("243","Moments-Engagements24","15");
oModelSeries.Add("244","Moments-Engagements25","15");
oModelSeries.Add("245","Moments-Engagements26","15");
oModelSeries.Add("246","Moments-Engagements27","15");
oModelSeries.Add("247","Moments-Engagements28","15");
oModelSeries.Add("248","Moments-Engagements29","15");
oModelSeries.Add("249","Moments-Engagements30","15");
oModelSeries.Add("250","Moments-Anniversaries1","16");
oModelSeries.Add("251","Moments-Anniversaries2","16");
oModelSeries.Add("252","Moments-Anniversaries3","16");
oModelSeries.Add("253","Moments-Anniversaries4","16");
oModelSeries.Add("254","Moments-Anniversaries5","16");
oModelSeries.Add("255","Moments-Anniversaries6","16");
oModelSeries.Add("256","Moments-Anniversaries7","16");
oModelSeries.Add("257","Moments-Anniversaries8","16");
oModelSeries.Add("258","Moments-Anniversaries9","16");
oModelSeries.Add("259","Moments-Anniversaries10","16");

*******************************************************************************
*** below is the CATEGORY selection control -- this works fine ***
*******************************************************************************

<SELECT name=storycategory id=storycategory
onchange="UpdateSelect('storysubcategory','form1',this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,oModelSeries);">
                      <option value="">[Select a Category]</option>
                      <option value="1">Front Page</option>
                      <option value="2">Local News</option>

                      <option value="3">State News</option>
                      <option value="13">Sports</option>
                      <option value="4">Local Sports - College</option>
                      <option value="5">Local Sports - Preps</option>
                      <option value="6">Local Sports - Community</option>
                      <option value="7">Features</option>

                      <option value="8">Business</option>
                      <option value="9">Opinions</option>
                      <option value="10">Obituaries</option>
                      <option value="11">Special Features</option>
                      <option value="12">About Us</option>
                      <option value="14">Moments - Weddings</option>

                      <option value="15">Moments - Engagements</option>
                      <option value="16">Moments - Anniversaries</option>
                    </select>

*******************************************************************************
*** below is the subcategory selection control, it DOES NOT work ***
*******************************************************************************

<SELECT name=storysubcategory id=storysubcategory >
                      <option>[Select a SubCategory]</option>
                      <option></option>

                      <option></option>
                      <option></option>
                    </select>

clinta

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Comment 1

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20 years ago

Attached image a jpg of the list box not working (very exciting) — Details

no additional comments really required

Ben Fowler

Comment 2

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20 years ago

Whilst there are probably enough things wrong with this report to earn it
a place on the http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html 
in the 'how not to do it section' merely from what we can read here; note that
going to the URL in comment 1 opens a pop-up advertisement.

If you are boasting that you beaten this community project's sanity saver,
well done.

If I had the right to do so I would tell you to go away, right quick.

Ben Fowler

Comment 3

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20 years ago

(In reply to comment #2)
> If you are boasting that you beaten this community project's sanity saver,
> well done.

<!-- J CARTER POP-UNDER CODE v1.8 for leadertelegram.com (12 hour) -->
<script language="javascript">
<!--

<!--
var dc=document; var date_ob=new Date();
dc.cookie='h2=o; path=/;';var bust=date_ob.getSeconds();
if(dc.cookie.indexOf('e=llo') <= 0 && dc.cookie.indexOf('2=o') > 0){
dc.write('<scr'+'ipt language="javascript" src="http://media.fastclick.net');
dc.write('/w/pop.cgi?sid=15904&m=2&v=1.8&c='+bust+'"></scr'+'ipt>');
date_ob.setTime(date_ob.getTime()+43200000);
dc.cookie='he=llo; path=/; expires='+ date_ob.toGMTString();} // -->
//-->
</script>
<!-- J CARTER POP-UNDER CODE v1.8 for leadertelegram.com -->

Dup of Bug 282382 "javascript pop up / under bypasses protection with doc.write"

Gervase Markham [:gerv]

Comment 4

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19 years ago

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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clinta

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Comment 5

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19 years ago

after receiving a notice that it had been three months since this issue was
opened, with no input, i decided to check it again with 1.5 beta 1, and it still
exhibits the same behavior.

Reed Loden [:reed]

Updated

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17 years ago

Assignee: bugs → nobody

Justin Dolske [:Dolske]

Comment 6

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16 years ago

The last bit of comment 0 seems to indicate that the generated HTML has empty <option> elements. The browser is doing what it's told. If this is still a problem, it's likely in the server-side HTML generation.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED

Closed: 16 years ago

Resolution: --- → INVALID

Nobody; OK to take it and work on it

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Updated

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16 years ago

Product: Firefox → Toolkit

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