154145 - missing submission of value by disabled text field

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Arnd David]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

If a text input field is protected by the flag "disabled", the value will not be
submitted. Maybe it's a "feature", I call it a "bug" :-)

Bye, Arnd

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to submit data of a text input field, thats protected by DISABLED
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Actual Results:  -

Expected Results:  submit the value :-)

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Comment 1

[Alexandru Savulov]

to john

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

This is correct according to the HTML spec, which states that:

"When set, the disabled attribute has the following effects on an element:
    * Disabled controls do not receive focus.
    * Disabled controls are skipped in tabbing navigation.
    * Disabled controls cannot be successful."

Successful is defined as "'valid' for submission".  So if an element is
disabled, it cannot be successful/valid for submission and therefore should not
be submitted.

References:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-disabled>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#successful-controls>

Comment 3

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying