119454 - bcentral.com - The drop down menus are empty, possibly because the size of the drop downs is wrong

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Stuart Burns]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+)
Gecko/20020110
BuildID:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+)
Gecko/20020110

When you go and join this newsletter via the link and when it asks age etc on
the SECOND page, the drop downs are too narrow and hence empty. The same thing
does work in IE 5.5

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the specified link and enter details
2. On second page of joining try and enter age or some other drop down menu
3.

Actual Results:  Blank drop down menus

Expected Results:  Have data in the drop downs

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

the problem with the drop-down is the clsoing slash in the option elements:
          <option VALUE="" SELECTED="" />please select one

if you remove the / from the above code, that particular line will display
correctly, removing that slash from each option corrects the issue.

Comment 2

[Hugh Kennedy]

agreed. this page is invalid xhtml.
<option> tags must be closed with </option> in xhtml, they can't be
closed with <option />

perhaps this should be marked invalid/wontfix.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 124586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

when was this fixed? Reopening.

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

Shouldn't this report become invalid since the XHTML doc is incorrect ?

Comment 6

[Erik]

Shouldn't we at least contact the site administrators and ask them to fix the
problem? I think we should do so as other browsers (including Netscape 4.51)
display the page correctly ...

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

Confirming and changing to Tech Evangelism

Comment 8

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Reassigning to Evang owner.

Comment 9

[Tim Johnson]

Will they follow up on the web sites referenced in the dups as well? Mine was in
bug 124586.

Comment 10

[Frankie]

Page now uses <option VALUE="" SELECTED="SELECTED">please select one</option>,
looks fine in Moz OSX. retest?

Comment 11

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed