Closed Bug 726758 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

<input type=email> validation fails on addresses with whitespace at beginning or end

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

13 Branch
x86
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: matt, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120210 Firefox/13.0a1
Build ID: 20120210040207

Steps to reproduce:

A document with simply these lines:

<!doctype html>
<input type=email>

does not allow an email address with a space at either the beginning or the end. The HTML5 spec says that the sanitization (sanitation?) process must include stripping leading and trailing whitespace from the value.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#e-mail-state-type-email

Entering an email address with a space at the beginning or the end causes the box to have a red border when blurred, indicating an invalid email address.

I tested this with the latest Firefox UX nightly.


Actual results:

Email box had red border.


Expected results:

Not actually sure, I guess the whitespace characters should simply be removed.
(In reply to Robert Longson from comment #1)
> That's what the html5 specification calls for doesn't it?
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#e-mail-state-
> %28type=email%29 and
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid-e-mail-address

Then at what point is the whitespace stripped? What is the point of that line in the spec?

<quote>The value sanitization algorithm is as follows: Strip line breaks from the value, then strip leading and trailing whitespace from the value.</quote>
According to the specification that happens when the multiple attribute is added/removed.
My apologies, it appears I've wasted everyones' time. I'm clearly not experienced at reading spec documents.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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