1716294 - Text field should have a limit of chars

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P1)

Description

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Attachment: 2021-06-14_10h21_26.png

Tested with:
Nightly 91.0a1 (2021-06-13)

Tested on:
Win 10

Preconditions:
In about:config, set pdfjs.enableXfa = true

Steps:

1. Launch firefox
2. Open the following pdf: https://bug1671648.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=9182033
3. Input a long text into the text fields from "BACKGROUND INFORMATION" section.

Actual result:
Text fields has no limit of chars.

Expected result:
Text fields should have a limit of chars as in Adobe Reader.

Comment 1

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Attachment: adobereader.png

Comment 2

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

I missed that in the specs but there is a maxChars property in text element.
Anyway a patch is in review:
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/13559

Comment 3

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/13559

Comment 4

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

This should now be fixed, Ralu can you verify?

Comment 5

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

I can confirm that this issue has been fixed. The same max character number is allowed in both Adobe Reader and the latest Nightly for each input box individually.