425759 - setting input type="button" value causes odd text entry field to appear.

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[William Halliburton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

Trying to change the text in a <input type="button"> via script. Setting the "value" attribute causes the text to change but also for a "text" entry field to appear right after the text. IE6, IE7, Opera and Safari work properly. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.button.setAttribute("value","new text");
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
assuming button is set to the input element, the button is redrawn with the new text but also with a text entry field right next to new text.

Expected Results:  
Just changed the text.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

The attached testcase works for me, Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Linux.

Does it demonstrate the problem you're reporting?  If not, please attach
a testcase that does.

Does the problem occur also in Firefox Safe Mode?
(it temporarily disables add-ons and themes, this test will help us narrow
down the cause of the problem) --  See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

Comment 3

[William Halliburton]

Attachment: shows the problem

The original bug was not really caused by setting the value, but actually be setting the innerHTML to "".

Comment 4

[William Halliburton]

Sorry for confusion.

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

That looks like a bug, but I'm not sure if it's something we should
try to fix on the 1.8 branch.  In Firefox 3.0pre nothing happens with
the button, which I think is the correct behaviour.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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