1046698 - When form has input element with name "action", using the DOM form.action behavious different (will refer to the input element instead of the form action element)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1043690

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

Description

[jurrien]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

<form name="form" action="a.php">
 <input type="hidden" name="action" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
 document.forms.form.action="b.php";
 document.forms.form.submit();
</script>



Actual results:

Since firefox 31: form will be submitted to a.php




Expected results:

Used to work up till firefox 30 and in all other known browsers: form submitted to b.php

Expect this bug to be shot down as with #226424, but since the behaviour has changed since firefox 30, I figured I'd try.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

b. 2014-04-25-03-02-09-mozilla-central-firefox-31.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64
b. 2014-04-26-03-02-04-mozilla-central-firefox-31.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64 0e91262606a6
a. 2014-04-27-03-02-04-mozilla-central-firefox-31.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64 c67a79064fd4
a. 2014-05-02-03-02-02-mozilla-central-firefox-32.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64
a. 2014-08-04-03-02-05-mozilla-central-firefox-34.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=0e91262606a6&tochange=c67a79064fd4

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> but since the behaviour has changed since firefox 30, I figured I'd try

Definitely!  I really appreciate you filing the bug!