127851 - Option() constructor is truncating spaces in option text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59248

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Sunil Pai]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95)
BuildID:    Mozilla/5.0

Consider the following example:

document.formName.selectName.options[0] = new Option("     ", "");

When the browser displays it, the 5 spaces provided in the Option object are 
ignored and only one space is considered.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Check the above description.
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Actual Results:  The spaces provided in new Option javascript object are 
ignored.

Expected Results:  older netscape versions display the spaces in Option object 
as required.

Additional Info: All latest versions also have the same problem.

Comment 1

[Mathias Bogaert]

Confirming. Build ID 2002022408 win2k.

Comment 2

[Mathias Bogaert]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Confirming bug with recent builds on WinNT and Linux.
OS : Win95 ---> All.

Browser, not engine. Reassigning to HTML Form Controls. Not sure who's 
repsonsible for displaying the spaces; please reassign as necessary -

Note, a similar problem occurs whenever there are spaces in the Option text
argument. That is, any time there are two or more single-space characters
in a row, the option text is printed with at most one of them, and none at
all if they are leading spaces. For example:


              new Option("   XXX       YYY      ZZZ", "");
              displays   "XXX YYY ZZZ" 


I will attach this testcase below.                    

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: testcase with new Option(" XXX YYY ZZZ", "")

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

cc'ing jkeiser -

Comment 6

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

I'm tempted to mark this a dup of bug 59248.

Comment 7

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Comment 8

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59248 ***