389601 - Select: delete option tags and refresh selects wrong option

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Mark Hays]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5

You choose the default option of a Select by adding the selected attribute.  However, in FF, if you delete all of the options from a Select, then refresh the page, FF ignores the selected attribute and instead chooses the first option.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load/download URL, notice "Default" is selected in the Select
2. Click "Delete option tags"
3. Refresh.
Actual Results:  
"Not default", the first option tag in the Select, is selected on refresh.

Expected Results:  
"Default", the option tag with the selected attribute, is selected, just like when the page was first loaded.

Also refer to the Dojo Toolkit ticket at: http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/3858

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Might be a duplicate of bug 221851.  Certainly the same underlying cause: trying to preserve the currently selected option.

Comment 3

[Martin]

First, sorry if i posted on a wrong place.
This Option tags problem still appears on FF 3.0.6

Ex:
<select>
  <option>Volvo</option>
  <option selected="selected">Saab</option>
  <option>Mercedes</option>
  <option>Audi</option>
</select>

On first load its appears Saab as default selected then i change
<option selected="selected">Mercedes</option> and do a refresh
but it shows in FF Saab still as default but in the html source
its selected Mercedes.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's not this bug, and in fact is the designed behavior.  Reloading preserves form values.  Please take that discussion elsewhere, since it's not related to this bug.