157009 - Null character not ignored

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Sebetich]

Found this today while debugging a jsp page.  I initialized an array to a larger
number than there were elements in the array and when I returned the elements of
the array to a method that populates select boxes in an html form the null place
holders for the non existent elements in the array were not ignored by mozilla,
displaying an immesely wide pull down field. This is not necessarily a bad thing
since the real bug was in my jsp code and mozilla was the only browser that
displayed the form "correctly". But I notice that iexplore and netscape both
ignored these nulls, displaying the page as I wanted to see it.  Although I
fixed my bug, there could be an issue with pages displaying mistakes on the
developers' part like this if they're testing with iexplore and netscape in
mind, and we know that most developers do.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please attach the HTML in question to this bug?  I'm not sure what "null" means
in this exact case or how you were using he null values...

Comment 2

[Michael Lefevre]

no response from reporter for >60 days, resolving WORKSFORME.

reporter: if you can reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla, please
reopen this bug and attach some code to demonstrate the issue. thanks.