357054 - javascript DOM.value doesn't have autofill information

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221634

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jon Stevens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Say I have a form like this:

<form>
  <input type="text" name="username" value="" />
  <input type="text" name="password" value="" />
</form>

Now, I load the page and autofill fill's in the username/password for me. Thus, one would think this would work:

<form>
  <input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="" />
  <input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="" />
  <input type="submit" value="Login" id="login" />
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
   alert(document.getElementById('username').value);
</script>

Sadly, it's null. This is a problem because I want to do this:

<form>
  <input type="text" name="username" value="" onkeyup="validate();" />
  <input type="text" name="password" value="" onkeyup="validate();" />
  <input type="submit" value="Login" id="login" />
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
   if (document.getElementById('username').value == "" && document.getElementById('password').value == "") {
    document.getElementById('login').disabled=true; }
</script>

And the validate() function would enable the button when the form fields have been filled in. The problem is that since autofill doesn't update the DOM, JS doesn't have good information.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Firefox's password manager (in Firefox 1.5.0.7) doesn't fill in the password until the page finishes loading.  Your script is inline, so it executes well before the page finishes loading.  Try running the script onload instead, or updating to Firefox 2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221634 ***