1753622 - The textarea forms are not autofilled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1928339

(Toolkit :: Form Autofill, defect, P3)

Description

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering [pto until 01.09]]

Affected Versions:

All recent firefox versions.

Tested on:

MacOS 11
Windows 10

Preconditions:

browser.search.region US,CA
extensions.formautofill.addresses.enabled - true
extensions.formautofill.supportedCountries US,CA
download latest Firefox Nightly with region locale
have a complete address already saved in about:preferences#privacy

Steps to reproduce:

1. Reach https://luke-chang.github.io/autofill-demo/textarea_select.html
2. Using autofill feature, select 1 saved address entry.

Expected Results:

All the fields should be successfully autofilled.

Actual Results:

The streetAddress field (textarea field) is not autofilled.

Comment 1

[Tim Giles [:tgiles]]

Since "textarea" is not a "input" or "select" element, our current code says that "textarea" elements are not eligible for autofill. Bug 1360370 seems to be the first bug to implement this code, but I can't find context as to why "textarea" wasn't included as an eligible field for autofill.

Seems straightforward enough though, add a case for "textarea", add a test for this new case, ensure the form autofill tests don't break, etc.

Comment 2

[Simon Pieters [:zcorpan]]

Per https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#autofill textarea should be eligible for all autofill field keywords.

I haven't checked how well this matches WebKit/Chromium though.