76194 - The attribute 'value' doesn't get updated when modifying text in antext input

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Thomas Deniau]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; 0.8.1)
BuildID:    20010326

I have a <input type="text" value="a" id="field" />
If the users changes the value in the field to "b" a
document.getElementById('field').getAttribute('value') returns 'a'.

Reproduced on Mac Fizzilla 3/26 and Linux Mozilla 0.8.1

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Put a <input type="text" value="a" id="field" /> in a page.
Set in the browser the content of the field to 'b'
Check document.getElementById('field').getAttribute('value')

Actual Results:  document.getElementById('field').getAttribute('value') returns 'a'

Expected Results:  It should return 'b'

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is correct behavior.  getAttribute('value') returns whatever was in the 
original HTML as the VALUE attribute.  This is the DOM .defaultValue property and 
_does_not_change_ when the text in the element is changed (it's what used to 
"reset" form elements).  If you want to get the new text, use 
document.getElementById('field').value

resolving invalid.

Comment 2

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying