1763306 - Discrepancy between input and textarea with autocomplete

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect, P3)

Description

[Vicki]

Attachment: Graphic of a filled-in form, where the browser has autocomplete suggestions for the input but not the textarea

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

Hi team. I have a form with an input and a textarea, both of which have autocomplete="on". (For completeness this is an Angular app, but I can observe the problem in other contexts, e.g. this site: https://www.dofactory.com/html/textarea/autocomplete)

Actual results:

Given I have previously submitted a form with values in the input and the textarea,
When I return to the page and focus the input, the previous values of the input appear in a dropdown,
But this does not happen for the textarea autocomplete.

Expected results:

I expect both inputs and textareas with autocomplete="on" to suggest their previous values. Does the documentation need to be updated if autocomplete is a valid attribute for a textarea but still provides no functionality?

The MDN describes this behaviour:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea#attr-autocomplete
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/autocomplete

Thanks for your time! Will gladly provide any more information that could be helpful.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Forms' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:mak, could you have a look please?

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