462418 - JavaScript Text box disappears on refresh

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect, P5)

Description

[rhilenova]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

The text in a textarea that is initially disabled through HTML then enabled through javascript will disappear when the page is reloaded. This does not happen when the Cache override reload is used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load page described in file
2.Click the "Enable" button on the webpage
3.Reload the page with F5
Actual Results:  
The textbox is initiall disabled, as one would expect. The "Enable" button enables it. When the page is reloaded, the text disappears and the textbox is still enabled

Expected Results:  
One would expect that after a reload, the textbox would revert to it's inital state: disabled with text.

Comment 1

[rhilenova]

Attachment: Test file to demonstrate bug

File taken from w3schools.com. I only removed the irrelevent "Disable" button

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Read http://www.soswd.com/writing_bugs.html. This works for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081030 Minefield/3.1b2pre, so it seems like it is something wrong with your Firefox install

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

I think this is better in the Core with JavaScript, but still can not confirm with Trunk.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

The JavaScript Engine component is for language implementation issues which this is not.

It looks like a caching issue to me and that is it actually by design but I'll let others decide that. If you shift-reload, the textarea is disabled.

Comment 5

[rhilenova]

Sorry about not checking the beta Tyler, I didn't think to try those, and I was running out of time. I agree with Bob though, becuase the textarea does reset when clearing the cache. If it is by design, the text in the textarea should not disappear. However, I could see the textarea remaining enabled.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258