58995 - window.opener.formName.submit() submits the wrong form[form sub]

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[fig\tree]

Scenario:
Page 1 opens page 2.
Page 1 has foobarForm, so does page 2.

Page 2 calls window.opener.foobarForm.submit() from a onclick handler, Moz
submits page 2's form instead of page 1's.
This happens even if the form names for page 1 and 2 are different.
Bug also exists in Netscape 4x.
Works like a charm in IE5x, of course.

The cross-browser workaround (IE, NS4x, Moz) I'm using right now for this is to
add "document." in front of the form name.

so:
window.opener.document.formName.submit() submits the proper form (the form
belonging to the opener).

Last tested on Moz 20001102.

Suspect to be ALL platform bug, people on non-Win32 platforms please test.

Comment 1

[timeless]

figtree: thank you for volunteering to attach a testcase or entering a testcase 
url.

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

reassigning

Comment 3

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Setting milestone to future

Comment 4

[basic]

Reporter: I'd like to test this but I need a testcase

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Bulk reassigning Eric Pollmann's remaining form submission bugs to Alex.

Comment 6

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

window.opener.foobarForm of course does not exist but
window.opener.document.foobarForm.submit() does the right thing.  Witness the
URL: page1.html opens a window with page2.html, which submits page1.html, which
tries to go to nowhere.html.  WFM Linux 2002011808, please reopen if this is
still happening.

Comment 7

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying on linux 2002-02-25-09-trunk and windows 2000 build 2002-02-22-03-trunk