154423 - Input File Element Wipes Values when hid.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152844

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Nick Tomkin]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2002062624

On this page, I use CSS display:none; to hide content within tables. After 
selecting a file from the hard drive, hiding the table in which the file form 
element is in erases the value.

1. Select file from harddrive.
2. Move to Tab 2
3. Move back to first tab.

You'll notice that the file element value disappears. I have an onChange event 
in use which I though might be causing it so I removed the onChange event to 
find that it was producing the same result regardless.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select file from harddrive.
2. Move to Tab 2
3. Move back to first tab.

Actual Results:  Erases content within the form element file value.

Expected Results:  To keep the file value regardless unless form reset or user 
removes value manually.

Comment 1

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Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

Please, whenever you put a test page in a restricted area provide user:password
to access it.

Anyway, this is a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152844 ***