77886 - textboxes containing only spaces act strangely

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

If a textbox contains only spaces and isn't empty,
* typing any character adds the character at the caret doesn't move the caret 
to be after the added character.
* pressing the right arrow key moves the caret down a few pixels.  (The spaces 
seem to live several pixels down from where text would normally be.)
* in the textbox is in the Find on This Page dialog, the dialog thinks the 
textbox is empty.
* if the textbox is in a form, the spaces are submitted, but they're submitted 
as spaces rather than plusses.

To get into this state, simply type a space into an empty textbox, or select 
the contents of a textbox and press space.  To get out of this state, type a 
letter key.

This applies to XUL textboxes as well as HTML form textboxes.

Comment 1

[Joe Francis]

some of these bugs will probably be hidden by my ws work.  I have no idea what 
the expectation of "plusses" is about.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

When I submit a Google search or another GET form, each space is supposed to be 
escaped to "+".  When there aren't any characters besides spaces in the form 
that doesn't happen.

Comment 3

[kinmoz]

I just tested textfields, passwords, file input, and textareas, in my Win32 
debug build from today, and they are all submitted properly with ' ' to '+' 
conversion. I verified this on the server I submitted to as well as the URL that 
was displayed as the result of the GET form submission.

What version/buildID of mozilla are you using? How are you seeing that the 
spaces are submitted as spaces instead of plusses?

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

In 042604 Win98, if I go to http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~jruderma/s/, type some 
spaces into the Google field, and press enter, the spaces aren't converted to 
+s.

In 042908 Win98, I don't see any of the problems I listed in the original bug 
report.  Marking as worksforme.

Comment 5

[sujay]

verified in 5/3 build.