295336 - Form fill fills in wrong items when label appears after field

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

The Form Manager seems to fill in the wrong data when the field label comes
after the form field.  In that situation, the information is placed in the field
that comes after the label (and the form manager sometimes loops around, filling
the first field with something else, often the email address again).

Testcase to follow.

Camino 20050523 (0.8+), Seamonkey 20050523 (1.8b2)

(I imagine this is platform/os all, but don't have either to check)

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: Testcase to illustrate incorrect behavior

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This recently showed up as one of Eric Meyer's biggest gripes with Camino:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/07/tweaking-camino/

just for the record.

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

This only seems to be an issue with the old form manager code, which is dead. Fields with satchel autocomplete fine, and just use the name attribute.

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

People even crazier than me might want to try and make our form-fill code just use the name attribute, too.