339944 - Form that only has hidden fields can't be submitted

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Partha Banerjee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

The following code works in Firefox 1.0.7:
------------------------------------
<form name="frmAuto" action="test.cfm' method="post">
<input type="text" name="xyz" value="10">
</form>

<script language="JavaScript">
document.frmAuto.submit();
</script>
------------------------------------
But the following code gives error in Firefox 1.0.7:

<form name="frmAuto" action="test.cfm' method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="xyz" value="10">
</form>

<script language="JavaScript">
document.frmAuto.submit();
</script>

What I want to say is that if you have only hidden fields in the form, it cannot be submitted. I stumbled upon this new thing. Did anyone of you also face this problem? If so let me know. Also tell me if this bug is documented anywhere.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

Just tested this and it works fine for me.

WFM:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060530 Minefield/3.0a1 - Build ID: 2006053103

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

> action="test.cfm'

Mismatched quotes?

Comment 3

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> > action="test.cfm'
> 
> Mismatched quotes?
> 

That looks like it, wrote my own testcase so I missed that. Sorry.

Breaks with invalid quotes but that's how it should work I'm guessing.

Comment 4

[Partha Banerjee]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
> Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
> Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
> 
> The following code works in Firefox 1.0.7:
> ------------------------------------
> <form name="frmAuto" action="test.cfm' method="post">
> <input type="text" name="xyz" value="10">
> </form>
> 
> <script language="JavaScript">
> document.frmAuto.submit();
> </script>
> ------------------------------------
> But the following code gives error in Firefox 1.0.7:
> 
> <form name="frmAuto" action="test.cfm' method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="xyz" value="10">
> </form>
> 
> <script language="JavaScript">
> document.frmAuto.submit();
> </script>
> 
> What I want to say is that if you have only hidden fields in the form, it
> cannot be submitted. I stumbled upon this new thing. Did anyone of you also
> face this problem? If so let me know. Also tell me if this bug is documented
> anywhere.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
its not a matter of quotes or double quotes. It was a typo here. my code contained 

<form name="frmAuto" action="test.cfm" method="post">
 <input type="hidden" name="xyz" value="10">
</form>

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I see only this:
Error: document.frmAuto has no properties
Source File: file:///C:/....html
Line: 10

Comment 6

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

Attachment: Example that works fine.

Attached is the testcase I used and it works fine.

Comment 7

[Ryan Jones-Ward [:sciguyryan]]

My mistake for some reason I don't understand that works locally but not when uploaded.

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

So the testcase in comment 6 *does* demonstrate this bug?

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

No, the testcase in comment 6 demonstrates something else: XHTML (served as application/xhtml+xml, or loaded locally as .xhtml) doesn't get the document.formName feature.

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: same thing as text/html

Comment 11

[Jesse Ruderman]

Which works fine for me (Mac trunk), as well as demonstrating the https-to-http form submission warning and a bug in session history.

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

I filed bug 340017 on document.formName not working in XHTML.

Comment 13

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'm guessing the back button being broken with this testcase is covered by one of the dependencies of bug 340021.

Comment 15

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070516 Minefield/3.0a5pre

This works for me in both Firefox 2 and trunk. ->WORKSFORME