484155 - input fields with value of tab character are not shown and processed right

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dmitry V. Silaev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7

When the input control is with a tab character being the single character in the value property, or the last character, or the first character it is not taken into consideration by browser, unless it is entered manualy (ctrl+c, ctrl+v) into text input field.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Nothing needed to reproduce, just try to process the code with any input with value="	" (text, select... whatever all are interpereted without including tab character).
Actual Results:  
1. text fields doesn't contain any text.
2. selects, radio groups, buttons... doesn't pass results in post

Expected Results:  
1. the initial text string should contain tab character
2. selects, radio groups, buttons... should pass the result in post

Some code examples
<pre>
&lt;input type="text" name="textbox" value="&amp;#09;" /&gt;
&lt;select name="select"&gt;
  &lt;option value="&amp;#09;"&gt;This is "tab" that is processing wrong&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value=" &amp;#09; "&gt;Thought this tab, between spaces is processed ok&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select>
</pre>

Comment 2

[paul.linden]

This issue bit us at work yesterday - see the issue in the last comment for background and why we can't continue using Firefox for our web interface to our database.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in a fresh profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). Also update your plugins (flash, adobe reader, java, quicktime, silverlight, etc.) Go to the developer's website and download the latest version from there. If you no longer see this issue, please close this bug as RESOLVED, WORKSFORME. If you do see the bug, please post a comment.

Comment 4

[Dmitry V. Silaev]

Yes. The issue is still there. Text box still is not displaying tab-character placed in value. And select still doesn't pass its tab-character value to post.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter, can you still reproduce using a current version?
If no, please set status to RESOLVED and resolution to WORKSFORME.
If yes, please provide updated information.

Comment 6

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard