105074 - [CBX]<SELECT> w static and dynamic <OPTIONS> not loading properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 104904

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[jaschwartz]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011015
BuildID:    20011015

The country list should include a list of all the countires. The mozilla browser
is only displaying a few.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the Country drop down list
2. You'll see only a few countries that start with "A"
3. No additional countries are there

Expected Results:  Show the complete list of countries

Once the countries work the next field to the right is the "states" field. Not
sure how that will work once the countries field is fixed. Have had problems
with this same issue using Netscape 4.61 for OS/2 but seems to be working with
latest version of 4.61

Comment 1

[Marc Attinasi]

I see a javascript exception in the console:

 line 0: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Failure"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::file:///z:/private/family-js.html ::
pageSetUp :: line 68"  data: no]

Also, I hacked the script a little, such that one of the entied that does show
up in the list (Afghanistan), was repeated 20 times. It only shows up 4 times,
with a space (blank option) between the 3rd and 4th entry, just like when other
entries are used.

This is not a layout issue, but instead a scripting issue. It may be an error in
the page, but I cannot tell. Since it works OK in IE and Nav 4 I'm guessing we
have something to look at. Over to JS folks who are a lot better at debugging
this than I am.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: Reduced HTML testcase

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

If you load the reduced testcase in NN4.7 or IE4.7, the selectbox
correctly shows all items from "All Countries" to "Native Lands".

But using Mozilla trunk binaries 20011016xx, you only see four items
or so, ending in "American Samoa".

This is another of the current bugs adding dynamic <OPTION> elements
to a <SELECT>. For example, see bug 100511. However, the error in 
the JavaScript Console seems to be a new twist; I don't recall that
from the other bugs of this type. 

Reassigning to HTML Form Controls - 

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Note the HTML includes a few static <OPTIONS> as well as the dynamic ones.

<select name="juris1">
   <!-- This makes the listbox have a sane width and height in Netscape -->
   <option>___________________________________</option>                                         
   <option></option>
   <option></option>
   <option></option>
   <option></option>
</select>


If you remove these, and only populate the <SELECT> dynamically, the
bug goes away. In other words, this bug occurs when static and dynamic
<OPTIONS> are used together.

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

cc'ing jkeiser, bzbarsky

Comment 6

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

This looks like a dup of bug 104904.

Comment 7

[rods (gone)]

I am not seeing any of this with today's build on Win2K

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed with the bug 34297 landing (I tried it with before-and-after builds). 
Marking dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104904 ***