1943000 - Reloading a testcase with time/month/week input-elements does not reset the number to default (Chrome does a reset)

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Forms, defect)

Description

[Mayank Bansal]

Attachment: time week month.html

Open the attached testcase
Input 50
Generate the elements
Reload the page by clicking on the reload button in the browsers toolbar

AR: The number of form elements remian 50
ER: Not so. Chrome resets it to 3

Comment 1

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

I think this is intentional fwiw.

Comment 2

[Sean Feng [:sefeng211]]

I wonder if we've made a statement explaining why form restoration works like this...Perhaps it's just some folks opinion 24 years ago, and people have different opinions...

I see we got lots of bug reports complaining about it, but I can also foresee others will start to complain if we change this. Maybe a pref can be introduced to configure this?

Comment 3

[Carl Zimmerman]

Yes, someone certainly should explain why form restoration works like this. Why would someone reload a page if not to restore it to its original appearance?

Comment 4

[Nick]

This is a bug.

I actually came here having read 46845 (which I found having spent hours debugging a website which was fine, it was this 'feature' that was the problem).
It's not a feature, it's a bug, and it should have been fixed 25 years ago.

I cannot fathom how a bug has been around for quarter of a century.