975527 - <output>.defaultValue not updated by parser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1537689

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

<output>test</output> should have a .defaultValue of "test", but instead it has the empty string.

From the <output> spec:
# Whenever the element's descendants are changed in any way, if the value mode
# flag is in mode default, the element's default value must be set to the value
# of the element's textContent IDL attribute.
 -- http://whatwg.org/html#the-output-element

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: wip

This is a bit clunky but seems to work.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Note, both gecko and blink (and I guess also webkit) have this behavior,
and I thought something in the spec required this odd behavior. Was the spec just changed?
The patch for bug 902618 would fix this if there weren't those changes to output. 

We have also some test for the current behavior.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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