53457 - [FIX]multiple items can be selected in select size=1 or in single select listbox

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[rods (gone)]

In script, options can be created with their selected attr set to true and added 
to a combobox or a single selection list and the options remain selected.

this is wrong and invalid

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

Attachment: reduced test case

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

changing summary to reflect that mulitple items can end up being selected 
whether it is through script or just with html.

Comment 3

[rods (gone)]

Attachment: simple html testcase

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

*** Bug 53959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Eugene Savitsky]

Why is it marked future? http://gs.spylog.ru/main.phtml?stat_id=1 (compare the 
month in mozilla and any other browser) is most used counter in Russia and when 
such a things are displayed not correctly people won't use such a product!!!

Comment 6

[rods (gone)]

we will re-evaluate it.

Comment 7

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Many thanks for your report! Yes, this is a bug, it's unfortunate, and we will 
fix this for a future release.

However, there's a very simple workaround: (1) First of all, scripts should not 
be written to select multiple items in a single select listbox or one with 
size=1. If they do, they have a bug and should be corrected. (2) If end users 
click on a single item, it alone will be selected and they can use the form.

Unfortunately Netscape engineering is overburdened and we lack the time to fix 
bugs of this relatively low severity for the first release. Confirming Future.

Comment 8

[rods (gone)]

This bug covers both creating selects with mulitple options selected when only 
one should be:

1) dynamically via script 
2) having more than one <option selected> in a select

It is true that the page referenced in the URL has two options with selected on 
them.

Comment 9

[rods (gone)]

Attachment: better working JS testcase

Comment 10

[rods (gone)]

Attachment: better HTML document testcase

Comment 11

[rods (gone)]

I hate to say this, but I figured out the fix.

Comment 12

[bsharma]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 13

[Eric Pollmann]

*** Bug 57838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Eric Pollmann]

Attachment: yet another test case

Comment 15

[Eric Pollmann]

Posted "yet another test case" because in this case, IE does something different
from Nav 4.x  I'm not sure which is correct, but Nav will leave the first option
selected while IE wil leave the last option selected if there are more than one.

Comment 16

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

r=[e-mail]

Comment 17

[rods (gone)]

fixed

Comment 18

[jerone]

Verified build 2001073003T os:winNT