350786 - maxlength on input field ignored when css style is display:None

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Tim Haines]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

Using Chris Pedericks Web Developer toolbar to populate a form, I've noticed that maxlength is obeyed with visible fields, but is ignored when fields are hidden with display:none.   Yes, the web dev toolbar populates these hidden fields.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See Summary and Description.
Actual Results:  
Field submitted contains a value longer than maxlength

Expected Results:  
Field submitted should have it's length limited to maxlength value.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Steve, this problem can be trivially checked by code inspection: maxlength checking happens in the editor, not the content node, and the editor only exists when the control is being rendered.

Arguably, that's correct behavior.  See also bug 345267.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I agree with Boris, this is correct (legacy) behavior.  Only changes made
by the user are subject to the maxlength limit.

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