25624 - 2000012808 submitting first, not SELECTED item in <SELECT>

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Sean Richardson]

* Summary:
Mozilla build 2000-01-28-08 is displaying, at least, and possibly submitting,
the first item on a <SELECT>, rather than the SELECTED item. Very visible
on Bugzilla show_bug.cgi pages.

* Steps to reproduce:
0. View bug 25351 in Netscape Navigator 4.x
1. Launch Mozilla 2000-01-28-08 (Win32 or Linux)
2. View bug 25351 in Mozilla
3. Click on the down-arrow at the end of any of the <SELECT> form controls
   at the top of the page, say "Platform"
4. Click on the down-arrow again

* Actual Results:
The displayed item for each of the <SELECTS> at the top of the page
when it is initially viewed will be the first item, not the SELECTED item;
for example, Mozilla will show "All" fro Platform while NN 4.7 show "Macintosh".
The only <SELECT> that shows the correct item is Component, where "ActiveX
Wrapper" is changed to "Browser-General" after a moment.

In step 3, the SELECTED item is shown highlighted, and in step 4 it is still
shown after the list has been collapsed, in place of the first item.

* Expected Results:
Mozilla will show the bug report <SELECT>s the same as NN 4.7; steps 3 and 4
will be surplufuous.

* Does Not Work Correctly With:
2000-01-28-08-M14 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3
2000-01-28-08-M14 nightly binary on Linux custom Slackware, fvwm2

* Works Correctly With:
M13 release on Windows NT 4.0sp3
NN 4.7 on Windows NT 4.0sp3

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

Sad to say, but this *can* cause data loss and corruption in Mozilla's
Bugzilla database: see bug 25625 for an example. This is not just a display
issue.

Tested this also with another form; same results. This is probably a bigger
problem for forms other than Bugzilla's show_bug.cgi forms: with the latter,
now that there is an "Architecture" Product, submitting the form will bring
up a Product change page, which *should* prevent most people from plowing
ahead and messing up the variables. Other forms may not have this sort of
checking.

Updating Summary from "2000012808 displaying first, not SELECTED item in 
<SELECT>" to "2000012808 submitting first, not SELECTED item in <SELECT>"

Comment 2

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to Rod.

Comment 3

[Sean Richardson]

Rechecked with 2000-01-28-12-M14 on WinNT, this seems fixed entirely.
Looks like this was an annoying one-build regression.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

Yes, we had this for one build. marking fixed

Comment 5

[Eric Pollmann]

*** Bug 25862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[ckritzer (gone)]

Marking VERIFIED FIXED on:
- Linux6 2000-02-01-10 Commercial build
- Win98 2000-02-01-08 Commercial build
- MacOS86 2000-02-01-09 Commercial build

Comment 7

[leger]

marking M14 as the milestone in which the fix occured.