72639 - Can't submit a form request

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Eugene Savitsky]

1. Open the page
2. Try to select some city in the upper form
3. Press "go"
4. Nothing happens.
5. But the lower form works correctly

moz 2001031904

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The document defines two different forms with the same name ("worldcity").  Then
it uses

document.worldcity.europe to reference the first select and
document.worldcity.europe_ntoz to reference the second select.

This seems incredibly broken, but over to DOM0 to decide whether they want to
support this weird NS4 behavior (NS4 does the "right" thing, obviously -- he
form is submitted).

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The problem with this site is that there's two <form name="worldcity"> tags on
the page and the first one is never closed, so mozilla sees that as two form
elements with the same name (the second one closes the first one, which IMO is a
reasonable thing to do), IE seems to ignore the second form element and thus
things work in IE. Mozilla things that document.worldcity is an array of two
form elements. I talked to harishd about this and he said that mozilla could
probably be changed easily to match what IE does, which is probably a good thing
to do in the long run. Reassigning to harishd. I think that if we're gonna fix
this we should do it soon, if we don't do it now we might as well leave it as
is, the page is invalid after all. Harish, do you have time to experiment with
this now?

Comment 3

[harishd]

Should discard nested FORM. Fix is in. Marking FIXED.

Comment 4

[Prashant Desale]

Verified with 2001-08-28-08 on Win95.