980863 - Hidden input value gets saved/restore on refresh

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Forms, defect, P5)

Description

[David]

Attachment: example.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.146 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

See the code attached that I got from here:
http://alexscordellis.blogspot.com.es/2010/06/firefox-autocomplete-plays-havoc-with.html
A hidden input has an initial value and is modified using javascript. 


Actual results:

If the page gets refreshed using F5, the hidden input value does not have the original value but the setted one with javascript.


Expected results:

From the documentation presented here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input input hidden should ignore autocompletion and should mantain its original value to be consistent.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Refresh (as opposed to force-refresh) saves/restores the values of form controls.  This has nothing to do with autocompletion.

Comment 2

[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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