1726112 - Large data entered into form/textarea should be logged/saved

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Forms, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Rob Janssen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Enter large amount of text into a form textarea, e.g. on a forum or contact form.
For some reason, the data is not accepted further down the chain.
(e.g. forum moderation, no reply on contact form submission)
Want to get the same text back to use it somewhere else (another forum, mail).

Actual results:

The submitted text is normally lost when it is no longer reachable using "back" etc.

Expected results:

It would be nice when there is an option to autosave all data entered into text areas
whenever it is larger than some threshold (e.g. 200 characters), even if it would
be as simple as concatting it to a specified textfile with some ----- separator.
Then, this textfile can later be opened using any editor and searched for the
relevant section which can be copy/pasted to some other place.

Comment 1

[Andrei Purice]

Marking this enhancement as NEW in order for it to gain more visibility.