Closed Bug 45169 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

INPUT elements with empty VALUE string display "null"

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: braden, Assigned: dcone)

References

Details

For

  <input type="text" value="">

Mozilla prints "null" in the text field. Navigator 4.x leaves the text field
blank in this case, which seems to be the sensible thing to do.
Keywords: 4xp
yet another cool textfield printing issue
Assignee: rods → dcone
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
This bug has been marked future because we have determined that it is not 
critical for netscape 6.0.  If you feel this is an error, or if it blocks your 
work in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.
Target Milestone: --- → Future
This is an error. Dynamically generated pages that pre-fill certain form fields
may fill the VALUE attribute with "". That's how I ran into this bug. Perhaps
this can be worked around by content developers, but they shouldn't have to.
Navigator 4 didn't do this silly thing, and I don't think IE does either. This
is a basic HTML support issue. "null" is simply *not* a reasonable response to
VALUE="".
I agree, but I marked it as future because I have about 30 bugs ahead of this.. 
and release is soon.. if we can get to it before release.. or a small fix, this 
will be fixed.  
Updating QA contact.
QA Contact: ckritzer → bsharma
Keywords: correctness
Blocks: html4.01
I've tested this on Mozilla 2000120620 and it seems that works fine. This bug 
status should be changed to WORKSFORME
Checked this bug.. and this works for me also..
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Verifying on RedHat6.2 build 2001-02-06-08-Mtest, works for me
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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