286722 - Wrong item in dropdown is selected when using "Back" button, if multiple items in dropdown have same value

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 182157

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Dan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

See the example I've given. By default the first option is chosen, and this
option has the same data in its "value" attribute as another entry much lower
down the list. If you keep the first option selected, and press "Submit", then
use your "Back" button to return to the form, you'll see that the first option
is no longer selected - instead, the one much further down is selected.

I believe this is correct use of the SELECT / OPTION tags - there's no reference
that I can find that says multiple OPTIONs can't take the same value.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create form with SELECT item.
2. More than one OPTION within this SELECT has the same data in its "value"
attribute.
3. Submit form.
4. Use back button.
Actual Results:  
A different item from the one I'd chosen was selected.

Expected Results:  
Left the selection exactly as I entered it.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182157 ***