253616 - input outside form submitted with form

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 182824

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Peter Pawlowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040729
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040729

Weird case -- the example above was as minimal as I could get it.

Form contains two inputs, after form there is some JavaScript to set focus to an
element in the form, then there is another input floating around. Around the
form and input there is a FONT tag.

When this form is submitted, all three inputs are included in the query string

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. click submit

Actual Results:  
query string contains three cgi params -- includes one that isn't contained in
the submitted form.

Expected Results:  
two cgi params submitted -- only the ones in the form.

workarounds:

 - put <form /> around formless input
 - move <script /> node to after formless input
 - remove FONT tag around code

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

<font> isn't allowed to contain <form>, so the parser starts doing fixup.  In
the middle of the fixup the script flushes the content model.  The upshot of all
this is that the last <input> ends up a child of the <font> which ends up a
child of the <form>.

Over to parser, but I doubt we'll be changing this behavior much.  Residual
style fixup is tricky as it is, and this works correctly with valid HTML, so....

Comment 2

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Confirming, because this is a bug, but as Boris said, it probably will not get
fixed. (Maybe I should just mark this WONTFIX?)

Comment 3

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Related to, or dupe of, bug 182824 ?

Comment 4

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182824 ***