97829 - simple <button> in a form causes submit

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

As the testcase that I will attach shows, it seems that any <button> in a form
will cause it to submit.  This seems to be a regression.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Attachment: simple testcase

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

forgot to say, seeing this in the 27th build, bclary was seeing it with a later
build too I believe

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

the last known build that does not have this behavior is trunk 2001081703/win2k

Comment 4

[sol]

Sounds pretty ugly. Added "nsbranch" keyword.

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Set milestone to mozilla0.9.5

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I would like to nominate this bug for nsenterprise.
Buttons could be used for other purposes than
submission. If non-submit type buttons always cause
"submit" action, many forms will become unusable.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

This problem occurs in build 2001082309/win2k. 

So the problem occured somewhere between 8/17 and 8/23. Sorry, but I don't have
any builds from any intermediate dates and it takes me over and hour to dl a
complete build. Perhaps someone else can help localize the problem more.

Comment 8

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

The problem began with the 8/21/2001 trunk build. 
On my 8/20 build, it is not a problem but with the 
8/21 build, this problem occurs.

Comment 9

[rods (gone)]

This is a dup and I have submitted a patch, I have to find what the bug # is.

Comment 10

[rods (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59035 ***

Comment 11

[kinmoz]

I don't think that this is a bug. According to:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-BUTTON

the default type for button is submit.

Comment 12

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

kin, you are absolutely right. here i am evangelizing standards and never used
type on buttons... always assuming the default type was button. This is
something for all of us evangers to remember. The correct default for button
type is submit but that does differ from IE and from earlier behavior in
Mozilla. We will need to remember this when evanging sites, but the change in
default behavior may cause us a little trouble. Fortunately it appears that
hardly anyone depends on the default type being button as i did.

Comment 13

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying duplicate

Comment 14

[Jesse Ruderman]

How can this be a dup of bug 59035?  Bug 59035 is the opposite of this bug.

Comment 15

[kinmoz]

Jesse's right. Reopening and closing as INVALID.

Comment 16

[kinmoz]

--> INVALID

Comment 17

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying invalid

Comment 18

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 105399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Jonas Jørgensen]

*** Bug 155294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 188544 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Ruslan Ismailov]

*** Bug 192163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 288289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 23

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 304002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 24

[Erik Fabert]

*** Bug 313484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 25

[Erik Fabert]

*** Bug 317910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***