335557 - checkbox form element does not propagate to script

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Max M. Stalnaker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060411 Firefox/1.0.8 SUSE/1.0.8-0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060411 Firefox/1.0.8 SUSE/1.0.8-0.2

Consider the case of a form and a script that processes the form.  It is common for a browser to avoid passing on to the script checkboxes that are not checked.  This in turn eliminates the possibility of a more automated script, since the script does not know about checkbox unless the programmer tells the script.  I would wish all form elements to be passed on to the script in the the content string.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a html form with a couple of checkboxes
2.create a script that tells you what the browser sent
3.execute the html and press submit

Actual Results:  
the checkboxes are not mentioned by the script

Expected Results:  
It should have reported the checkbox names and a null value.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

WONTFIX.  This would violate the HTML 4.01 spec (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#checkbox).  It would probably also break some sites that rely on unchekced checkboxes *not* being mentioned in the form submission information.