Bug 38678

Summary:

Though the maxlength is defined as "5" characters, Text field shows more than 5 characters.

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Prasad <ext-prasad.adimulam>

Component:

Forms

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

Severity:

Major

CC:

ap, tkent

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Attachments:

Description	Flags
XHTML page	none

Prasad

Reported 2010-05-06 13:14:02 PDT

Created attachment 55289 [details] XHTML page Steps To Reproduce ------------------- 1. Launch the attached HTML page with the web browser. 2. Check the Username and Password text fields. Expected Outcome: ----------------- Username and Password text fields should NOT display more than 5 characters. (as maxlength is defined as "5") Actual Outcome: -------------- More characters displayed than the defined maxlength Behaviour in different browsers: -------------------------------- Qt Anomaly Browser: Reproducible Firefox (ver 3.6.3): Reproducible. Safari (Ver 4.0.5) : Not Reproducible.

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XHTML page (873 bytes, application/xhtml+xml) 2010-05-06 13:14 PDT, Prasad	no flags	Details
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Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 1 2010-05-07 13:49:52 PDT

This is not Qt-specific, as Mac WebKit nightlies behave in the same way. This change in behavior was an intentional bugfix, see bug 21271.

Kent Tamura

Comment 2 2010-05-08 05:24:02 PDT

Yes, this behavior conforms to HTML5. Browsers show default values longer than maxLength, but users can not input a value longer than maxLength.

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