52413 - <radio>.setAttribute('value','foo') doesn't update visually

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[John Morrison]

Overview Description: 
  Using .setAttribute to change the value of a <radio> does not result
  in a change visually. However, the value is being changed in the DOM.
  No change in the layout occurs whatsoever (as opposed to the <checkbox>
  which just failed to do a reflow).

Steps to Reproduce: 
1) Load the testcase
2) click the test buttons and look at the screen and the console.

Actual Results:   no change to radio label

Expected Results: radio label updated with new value

Reproducibility: always

Build Date & Platform Bug Found: 
  20000912nn mac/linux/win32

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

-> Future, as ducarroz and BenB said they don't need it for PR3/RTM.

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

Attachment: testcase; update the value attribute of <radio> [text/xul]

Comment 3

[timeless]

Theme builders need to know this doesn't work, and a suggested workaround would 
be useful.

Comment 4

[Eric Vaughan]

Content is the same. Looks like this is a XBL bug. Hyatt?

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug seems fixed to me. The text in the testcases changes when the buttons 
are clicked. 20001023MN6 Win95.

So, the blurb:
It seems unclear to me whether this bug requires either of a "developer" or 
"user" release note for Netscape 6 RTM. If anyone feels it does, can they please 
draft one and then nominate with the relnote-user or relnote-devel strings in 
the Status Whiteboard.

Thanks :-)

Gerv

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

worksforme

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: updated testcase

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

"Bring out your dead!"
'Here's one.'
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``I'm not dead!''
"Ere. He says he's not dead!"
'Yes, he is.'
``I'm not!''
"He isn't..."
'Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.'
``I'm getting better!''
'No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.'
"Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations."

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Why is it that all I can think to say is 'worksforme' and you find a passage 
from Monty Python (no?) to fit the occasion?

Comment 10

[John Morrison]

Cause I'm a lazy bastard who's randomly surfing the web instead of retesting 
all my old bugs?

:-)