Bug 16337 – REGRESSION: A radio button without a name cannot be triggered

• Component: Forms
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Follow-up from bug 16273.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open the bug URL.
2. Try to click the radio button.

Results: it is highlighted on mouse down, but never triggered.

Works in Firefox, works in Safari 2.0.4, fails in Safari 3.0.4 and TOT.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

<rdar://problem/5635196>

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Fails in the earliest WebKit nightly build, r11976, with Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165).

[Rob Buis]

It seems this is done for winIE compability, see line 1047 of HTMLInputElement:

   1047           return 0; // Match WinIE and don't allow unnamed radio b        uttons to be checked.
   1048                     // Checked buttons just stay checked.

See also test fast/forms/radio_checked_name.html.
Cheers,

Rob.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

INVALID then.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/20333

Bug 13087

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

I'm not sure this is really the correct behavior for XHTML... maybe.  I guess we should make sure this is part of the HTML5 spec.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Adding Hixie for comment on Comment #6.

[Ian 'Hixie' Hickson]

IE8 doesn't do this, so I'm not going to make the spec say to do it either. Mozilla and Opera don't do it.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21534 ***

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> IE8 doesn't do this, so I'm not going to make the spec say to do it either.
> Mozilla and Opera don't do it.

Hixie, apparently IE7 and IE8 do this now.  See Bug 21534 Comment #5.