1088158 - placeholder not displayed on cloned HTML textarea elements

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[John Hunter]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.104 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

See fiddle test case http://jsfiddle.net/johnhunter/c6nge56o/

1. Create a textarea node
2. set the placeholder property
3. Clone the node
4. Append the node to an element in the page


Actual results:

Textarea is rendered without the placeholder text


Expected results:

Textarea is rendered with the placeholder text

Comment 1

[Loic]

The placeholder appears only when the textarea has the focus of the cursor.

Comment 2

[John Hunter]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> The placeholder appears only when the textarea has the focus of the cursor.

Yes. On focus the placeholder renders. Once focus has triggered rendering then the placeholder functions as expected.

Comment 3

[Loic]

Reg range:
good=2014-04-27
bad=2014-04-28
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=c67a79064fd4&tochange=4d926af89907

Ehsan Akhgari — Bug 997805 - Correctly restore the placeholder text after the editor object is re-attached to a text control as a result of a reframe; r=bzbarsky

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Thanks a lot for the great bug report with the test case, John!  I have a fix.

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

Attachment: Update the visibility state of placeholders for textareas correctly when they get their anonymous content; r=roc

Comment 6

[John Hunter]

Excellent news, thanks Ehsan.

Comment 7

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/178efc7a2007