717595 - firefox no longer supports modifying "selected" attribute via javascript/jquery

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Jacob]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111220165912

Steps to reproduce:

Previous to Ffx8, the following pair worked fine:
$("select > option:first").attr("selected","selected");
$("select > option:first").removeAttr("selected");


Actual results:

The select element gets stuck on the first option: the actual code selected="selected" is removed, yet if you select a different option, it doesn't change. You (as a user) have to manually select the first option, then go back and select whichever one you want. If you don't manually select the first option first, you cannot select a different option.


Expected results:

After removing the "selected" attribute, the select element should behave as if there was no hard-coded selected="selected".

Here is an example of the issue: http://jsfiddle.net/jshado1/EkDdB/
Click the button "click to fade in"
Try to select any option but the first

Comment 1

[Jacob]

I have tested this in Ffx 4 thru 9.0.1 on Mac and Win, and the issue first appears in Ffx8 (and continues thru v9.0.1).

This issue is isolated to Firefox (tested in Safari/Chrome and Opera for Mac & Win, and IE on Win).

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

This appears to work fine now in Firefox 19. Jacob, thanks for reporting it and I'm sorry that this issue didn't get a response earlier.  But, at least appears to be fixed now!

Comment 3

[felipe]

I'm having the same problem in 40.0a2 version (24/06/2015), some of you are acotecendo this error?