542325 - Click on a input element in a form submits it opening a new browser tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 533545

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Guillermo López :willyaranda (probably SLOW response)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; es-ES; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; es-ES; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

When I click on a input form that it is in an email, the form submits all values and open the webpage that it's the action on the <form> tag:

<form name="f" action="http://www.feriayecla.com/enviarinvitacion.php"
 method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an HTML mail with a form in it
2. Click on any input element to write something
3.
Actual Results:  
A new page is opened in the default browser sending all elements of the form.

Expected Results:  
Should not submit the form until I click on the "Submit" Button

Reporting it because I have received some complains in Mozilla Hispano forums.

Comment 1

[Guillermo López :willyaranda (probably SLOW response)]

Attachment: Test email with form in it

Comment 2

[Guillermo López :willyaranda (probably SLOW response)]

Confirming with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100126 Shredder/3.2a1pre

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Post or get are affected this issue should be the post one.

Comment 4

[support]

Hi,

We have also identified this issue.  Any form items submits an empty form to the form address (No data sent with the form).

Comment 6

[tyomitch]

The apparent fix: line 115 of /mail/base/content/contentAreaClick.js 
====
  let href = hRefForClickEvent(aEvent);
====
change it to
====
  let href = hRefForClickEvent(aEvent, true);
====

Hard to tell whether this behavior was intentional or overlooked.

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Tyomich want to submit a patch ?

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is actually a duplicate of bug 533545 and we're discussing a possible patch over there.