182146 - <div> visibility interacts incorrectly with <form> text input area visibility

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[James Bradley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

While building a page using the CSS visibility attribute to hide or display a
division with a form embedded (and I tried a form with a division embedded, as
well) I found that the text input boxes would retain a hidden style, regardless
of the division's status. Transfering the form markup to another file and
loading it into an inline frame resolved the problem. Still, it really shouldn't
work this way. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a division with a form included or vice versa
2. Set the visibility of the division to hidden
3. Use JavaScript to set the division to visible
4. Attempt to enter data in the text input boxes

Actual Results:  
The cusor moves across the text box as the characters are typed, but nothing
displays in the box. In fact the value of the entry is being captured.

Expected Results:  
Display the entry.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

->Style

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: testcase based on reporter's vague description

This testcase fits the reporter's description of the bug, but does not
demonstrate the bug.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Marking worksforme.

If you have a testcase that shows the bug, please attach it to the bug (or cite
a URL) and reopen the bug report.