306616 - disabled is not restored for all types of input controls on refresh

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Allan Beaufour]

the disabled state for a control is restored for a default input, but not for a
password input? Is that correct behaviour?

Comment 1

[Allan Beaufour]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Allan Beaufour]

it also goes for other input controls. Found it in this testcase:
http://beaufour.dk/tmp/enabled-true.xhtml

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The issue is that we never restore state for passwords, which is wrong. We don't
want to restore the value, but I think we do want to restore the disabled state...

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: Fix

Comment 5

[Allan Beaufour]

This fixes input.

Shouldn't the disabled state also be restored for textarea, button, select,
option, and optgroup?

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed on trunk.

We have existing bugs on the other form controls, actually.

Comment 7

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> We have existing bugs on the other form controls, actually.
Bug 277724 is one of them.

Comment 8

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

A summary explanation of why Firefox maintains disabled state would have been nice - at least for programmers to know about this semantics and to work around it.

See also bug #293733.

New bugs regarding "persistence of disabled state" bug #468614 (filed in 2008) and bug #502812 (filed in 2009).