Closed Bug 287551 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Custom attributes of standard HTML Tags become 'Undefined' values when manipulated with JavaScript

Categories

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Form Manager
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 198643

People

(Reporter: youlikeicecream, Assigned: bugs)

References

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Details

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

I tried to create additional attributes of Form objects within the HTML tags,
then access them with java script and move the custom attribute to another
textfield. In the HTML and Javascript code below i have defined a new attribute
'My_Label' within the text input tag. 

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<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function changetext() {
		var mytext = document.form1.textfield.value;
		var mylabel = document.form1.textfield.My_label;
		document.form1.textfield2.value = mylabel;
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="textfield" value="The Value" My_label="Mieks Value">
    <select name="select" onChange="changetext();">
      <option selected>1</option>
      <option>2</option>
      <option>3</option>
    </select>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="textfield2">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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The code above works under internet explorer 6, but not under Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://alumni.oxcoder.co.uk/new_tag_test.asp
2.Change the value of the Listbox on the page

Actual Results:  
the value 'Undefined' was put into the second textfield on the page

Expected Results:  
the value 'Mieks Value' should have been placed in the second textfield (works
under Internet Explorer 6)
Installed Firefox release 1.0.2 and still not working...
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321
Firefox/1.0.2)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198643 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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