266786 - If the value is not specified in dropdown option, firfox uses text as the value

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[sathish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0

If i have a dropdown like 
<select name=mySelect>
<option>--Select One</option>
<option value=1>One</option>
<option value=2>Two</option>
</select>
If i try to read the value of first option then it returns "--Select One" 
instead of "".



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Should always return blank when there is no value specified

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

value = cdata [CS]
    This attribute specifies the initial value of the control. If this attribute
is not set, the initial value is set to the contents of the OPTION element.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-OPTION

So what you see is what is supposed to happen per the spec.  If you want the
value to be "", set it explicitly.

->Invalid.

Comment 2

[sathish]

Interesting spec. It would be nice if it sets to blank instead of the text.
Oh well, we have to follow W3 standards.


(In reply to comment #1)
> value = cdata [CS]
>     This attribute specifies the initial value of the control. If this 
attribute
> is not set, the initial value is set to the contents of the OPTION element.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-OPTION
> So what you see is what is supposed to happen per the spec.  If you want the
> value to be "", set it explicitly.
> ->Invalid.