68679 - clicking on submit form button does not work as expected

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 49951

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

Description

[tippett]

Clicking on the date (32 Jan 2001) button should (i.e. with 
netscape 4.76, moz 0.7, netscape 6) draw the data for 
that date and change the buttons. A value is set and a form is 
submitted. With recent builds, clicking on date button does not 
change the page.

Behavior seen in linux build 2001021221 and most of the builds of the 
past few weeks.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

reassigning for now

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Confirmed
Platform: PC
OS: Linux 2.2.16
Mozilla Build: 2001021408

Marking NEW.

Comment 3

[tippett]

Bug is still present in 2001060600. The two urls below contain similar forms.
However, the input element

<input value="23 May 2001" type=button onclick="this.form.elements[1].value='23
May 2001';this.form.submit();">

is incorrectly handled in the first url. This is seen by clicking on the 23 May
2001 button which should change the value of map.T.plotvalue from "30 May 2001"
to "23 May 2001".

http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/~tippett/test_does_not_work
http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/~tippett/test_works

The html sources differ by a <p> tag. Both work with netscape 4.77 and Konqueror.

Comment 4

[Eric Pollmann]

This extra <p> in the does_not_work case is causing us to hit the
DemoteContainer case.  For some reason, the first input, (hidden, named
"my.help"), does not get added to the elements list when the form is demoted. 
Looking into this.

CC'ing Vidur and Johnny.

Comment 5

[Eric Pollmann]

Oh, it's there, just out of order (at index 22 instead of index 1) - dup of a
bug that's been around forever...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49951 ***

Comment 6

[Eric Pollmann]

Reporter, as a workaround, you can change the (illegal) .'s in the form control
file names to some other character (e.g., _), then do something like this:

<input value="23 May 2001" type=button onclick="form.map_T_plotvalue.value='23
May 2001'; form.submit();">

Comment 7

[Eric Pollmann]

s/form control file names/form control names/g  (opps!)

Comment 8

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying duplicate