266335 - Javascript "length" doesn't return the correct amount of characters in textareas if there are carriage returns.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188015

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Prusak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 

MSIE, each carriage return is counted as 2 characters (correct as that's how 
many are being submitted) (carriage return/linefeed)

Mozilla/Netscape/Firebird Returns the count as 1 character but submits 2.
(carriage return/linefeed)

This breaks form validation on the client side.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.prusak.net/testcount.html
2. Enter a single carriage return in the text area field.
3. Click on the Count link so that Javascript can tell you how many characters 
are in the field.
Actual Results:  
Mozilla*(firebird, netscape) returns "1".  MSIE returns "2"


Expected Results:  
Javascript should return the number of characters that it's going to submit.  

If you submit the data, I return the HTML Encoded data back to you so you can 
see what was submitted by the form.  A single carriage return is submitted 
as "%0D%0A"  That's 2 characters.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188015 ***