Bug 70586 – [Forms] Setting defaultValue should hide an input placeholder.

• Component: Forms
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Following HTML should not should placeholder in text field:

<input type="text" placeholder="placeholder" id="t">
<script>
 document.getElementById("t").defaultValue="default";
</script>

Expect:
Text input field displays "default".

Result:
Text input field displays both "default" and "placeholder"

This bug comes from Chromium bug http://crbug.com/93585

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[Darin Adler]

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Thanks for tackling this.

> Source/WebCore/html/HTMLInputElement.cpp:1303
> +    updatePlaceholderVisibility(false);

This is the wrong way to do it. You also want the placeholder to go away if the value attribute is set directly. For example, if your test said this:

    document.getElementById("c1").setAttribute("value", "Default");

We need to test both cases, and we need code that works in both cases.

The way to do that is to put the code into parseMappedAttribute, in the case for valueAttr. In fact, it should go inside the !hasDirtyValue if statement, since it only needs to run if the default value hasn’t been overwritten.

[Kent Tamura]

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> Source/WebCore/ChangeLog:9
> +        Tests: fast/forms/70586-expected.html
> +               fast/forms/70586.html

70586.html is meaningless.  Please name it something representing a test case.

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[Kent Tamura]

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> LayoutTests/ChangeLog:13
> +        * fast/forms/70586-expected.html: Added. Render text input element with "Default" value.
> +        * fast/forms/70586.html: Added. Render text input element with placeholder attribute and a script to change default value of input element to "Default" from empty.

Please rename the test.  Number-only name is hard to imagine the content.

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[Kent Tamura]

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Looks good.  Thank you for fixing this.

[WebKit Review Bot]

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Clearing flags on attachment: 112156

Committed r98222: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/98222>

[WebKit Review Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.