773269 - HTML5 + self closing slash on text input + value = cursor breakage

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Hannah Wolfe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11

Steps to reproduce:

Had <input type="text" value="http://" id="somat"  name="somat" class="somat" /> on an HTML5 page... investigation shows it is the same for any value not some special case of having "http://".


Actual results:

When a user clicks in the input field, rather than their cursor going to the end after the value of "http://", it goes to the beginning, as if the value is not there. No amount of arrow or "end" key pressing will put the cursor at the end of the value.  The value is not selectable. It really seems the browser does not know the value is there, even though it has rendered it.


Expected results:

The users cursor should default to the end, just like it does if you remove the self-closing slash.

Comment 1

[Hannah Wolfe]

Note that this has been experience on linux as well as windows.

Comment 2

[Hannah Wolfe]

Am working on a reproducable example to add to this bug.

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Please reopen once there is a reproducible example.