277250 - button element uses incorrect default for type attribute, causing form submission

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 220047

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Hartley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050105
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050105

If a button element doesn't have a type attribute specified, such as in the
following example:

<button>click me</button> 

Then the default value of the type attribute should be 'button'. It appears
however that the default value becomes submit, which causes the entire form to
be submitted, which obviously isn't the expected behavior.

See my test page for a demonstration: http://jeremy.hartzz.com/bug_button.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See example page, or make a form with:

<form name="f1" action="http://www.disney.com" method="get">
	<button>Button (No Type)</button>
	<button type="button">Button type="button"</button>
	<button type="submit">Button type="submit"</button>
</form>

Comment 1

[Erik Fabert]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220047 ***

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

indeed - this is the correct behaviour. vrfy.