270088 - if you click on a disabled form element (like input type=text readonly), it will show a dropdown with previously-used values

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Winston Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040917 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040917 Firefox/0.9.3

You can enter a value in a readonly text form field by clicking on it and
selecting from a dropdown containing previously used items. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Make a read only form field and submit button page
2.  Enter some values in it and submit a few times
3.  Now click it and you will see that it will show you a dropdown with your
previous entries, and you can select one.. it will put it in the box

Actual Results:  
It shows the dropdown and I can select a value and submit

Expected Results:  
Software should not let me fill in a readonly form field

E-mail me if you want me to set up a demonstration -- [e-mail]

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please attach a page showing the problem to this bug report using
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=270088&action=enter

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Firefox has a different form filler. I can confirm in 0.9.1

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

But WFM in 1.0

testcase (submits to google):
data:<form%20action="http://www.google.com/search?"><input%20name=q%20readonly><input%20type=submit></form>