246026 - HTML Select tags do not use the selected="selected" attribute at all when using numbers as options.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Johari Lanng]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

When coding in XHTML Transitional 1.0, <select> objects will not utilise the
selected="selected" attribute when using numbers in the options. For example, my
dropdown has 1,2,3,4,5 as the options (with corresponding values) and the
selected="selected" attribute/value has no effect. 

It works fine when numbers are not involved. Have not tested with other HTML DTD's.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Code a valid XHTML Transitional 1.0 page with a <select> object on it.
2.Make sure all values are numbers with corresponding numeric values.
3.Set one of the <option> elements to selected="selected"

Actual Results:  
Select list is rendered with first option visible every time.

Expected Results:  
Select list should have rendered the selected <option>, as per (X)HTML
specification.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Please provide a URL or a testcase.

Comment 2

[Rick Bull]

Works for me on my test-page at
<http://www.rickbull.com/junk/mozilla/select_numbers.xhtml>. Perhaps the
reporter has an error in their code? As Bill says a URL or testcase is needed
from the reporter.

Comment 3

[Johari Lanng]

Seems to be okay for me now (?). Will attempt to find out what was going on
there - bug can be downgraded for the meantime until I find what it was.

Comment 4

[Rick Bull]

A couple of things I can think of would be that you selected a different item in
the list, then pressed refresh, and Mozilla restored your last selections. Or
perhaps the password/form manager was remembering your form field entries.

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Marking invalid.