555493 - With a form, Option tag with attribute Label is not shown if text between option tags are entered

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40545

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Travis Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When a form is created with xhtml using a option tag with a label, the label is not shown if their is text inside of the option tag.  I am attaching some sample code:
<form>
<select dir="ltr" lang="en-us" tabindex="1" xml:lang="en-us" name="Plattsburgh State Men's Basketball Head Coach Tom Curle">
  <option dir="ltr" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us" label="Chicken" selected="selected">
    Computer and Technology
  </option>
 </select>
</form>


computer and technology is displayed instead of Chicken

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Travis Smith]

Labels are suppose to be for short versions of the text. According to W3C Standards a label as an attribute for select is suppose to be shown instead of the text.  IE 8, Opera and Safari all render this properly.

Comment 2

[Travis Smith]

Attachment: Basic Form with Select, Option Tag with Label

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 40545?

Comment 4

[Travis Smith]

It is a duplicate of bug 40545.  Didn't find it when I searched for form option or form label.  This was reported first in 2000.  It should be fixed considering all of the major browsers render the form label properly.  This includes IE 8, IE 7, Safari and Opera.

Comment 5

[Travis Smith]

Changed product to core.  Maybe it should also go under FireFox because that is where I searched for the bug because it was happening in FireFox.  I don't used the other Mozilla programs right now!