32772 - Quirk of setting form control data continually appends linefeeds to each addition

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew Mastracci]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; N; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m14)
BuildID:    2000032115

When you add a character to a textarea form element, it automatically adds an
extra linefeed after the character you add (textarea.value += character), making
character-by-character addition impossible.  I'll cook up a small testcase, but
it's easy to see on the given example.  *May* be related to 26786, but I can't
tell for sure.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click the connect button on the test page to start the program
2.  The script will "speak" properly the first time
3.  Type random text into the "You:" box below
4.  Hit "Send"
5.  Watch the problem appear.	


Actual Results:  The text appears one character per line.	

Expected Results:  The text is appended character-by-character, so it should
appear in a single line.  	

I don't know if this has anything to do with the bug, but it also seems to be
ignoring the \r\n's I add to the textbox.  According to IE and NN4, this seems
to be the Right Way to add a line break to a textbox, but then again, who can
tell :)  If this is not expected behaviour unrelated to this bug, I can file a
second bug for it.

Comment 1

[Matthew Mastracci]

Attachment: This testcase illustrates the bug. I've discovered that characters are added fine on the first line of the textbox, but not on the second or further lines. Run the testcase to see this.

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

editor issue

Comment 3

[Matthew Mastracci]

Works perfectly now.  Thanks to whomever fixed the bug.

Comment 4

[bsharma]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 5

[jerone]

verified on build 2001-08-07-80-trunk