657702 - html5 email field does not use trim function to remove whitespace

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[[e-mail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

The rendered HTML5 email field does not accept an email address with whitespace at the beginning or end where it is difficult for the user to see (s)he has entered them by mistake (perhaps during copy and paste)

Well done for getting html5 and css3 implemented, but this has forced me to rollback after observing my register interest form is easier to use in more cases in IE6 :P

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. write some html5 and run it in firefox
2. enter an email with whitespace at the end
3.


Expected Results:  
that the whitespace would be trimmed before the email was checked for validity

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

The following says that only 'Strip line breaks' should be performed on an email address. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#e-mail-state

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mounir?

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Is there good reason to not strip whitespace from each end of the email address?

My friend was baffled trying to use my form because he could not see the erroneous whitespace - I trim the field before DB now it is no longer a form field.

I could use js to alert the user but seems simple for the browser to do it (or for me to revert to HTML text field).

Comment 4

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Your suggestion makes sense to me. I'm going to open a bug against the specifications and will apply the change if accepted.

Thank you very much for your feedback :)

Comment 5

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Specs bug has been open: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12682

Comment 6

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Attachment: Patch v1

Comment 7

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Pushed:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c11ae0f171a4

Comment 8

[Frédéric Buclin]

Has this been regressed? When I type " [e-mail]" in the Email Address field of https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/enter_bug.cgi, Firefox 35.0.1 complains that the email address is invalid. It doesn't let me submit the form.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's possible.  Or possibly it never worked...  I filed bug 1132142 to track this.