45169 - INPUT elements with empty VALUE string display "null"

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Braden]

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.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

yet another cool textfield printing issue

Comment 2

[dcone (gone)]

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.

Comment 3

[Braden]

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="".

Comment 4

[dcone (gone)]

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.  

Comment 5

[bsharma]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 6

[Vicente Salvador]

I've tested this on Mozilla 2000120620 and it seems that works fine. This bug 
status should be changed to WORKSFORME

Comment 7

[dcone (gone)]

Checked this bug.. and this works for me also..

Comment 8

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Verifying on RedHat6.2 build 2001-02-06-08-Mtest, works for me