Comments on: Firefox Form Difficulty

By: Krishna Rao

Krishna Rao — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:53:10 +0000

God Bless you ….

** A server side programmer f*****ed by cross-browser issues.

By: Godkillah

Godkillah — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:28:27 +0000

What a nonsense am i reading here?!
Firefox is the best browser there is and spoken about javascript issues Internet explorer has lots more of them! for example with writing rows in tables, in firefox it could be as simple as
document.getElementById(“test”).innerHTML+=”test”
in IE it would require a page full of lines with DOM.
im not saying FF doesnt have any issues at all but it has less than IE.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:02:31 +0000

Thank You

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:08:15 +0000

It still seems like bizarre reaction to the improper code. The button appears, but is not clickable? The browser bothers to render it, but doesn’t attach action to it appropriately? The counterintuitive nature of the way this renders is the bug here.

Obviously the HTML is incorrect, but a significant power of HTML and browsers is their ability to carry on regardless of the ineptness of the code. The way this acts leads one on wild goose chases with debugging.

By: Troy Farrell

Troy Farrell — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:38:05 +0000

Actually, the behavior you describe is not a bug in Firefox. It is a bug in the HTML. Only one input element is allowed inside a label element. You will find similar behavior if you try to put two radio buttons inside a label element. The second cannot be clicked in Firefox.

I’m thankful that the browser is actually forcing us to write proper code.

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:31:45 +0000

You are absolutely correct. The above code is 100% bad. But… as anyone knows who writes much HTML, mistakes happen. I merely posted so others may be able to find their problem through my ignorance.

By: lego

lego — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:44:29 +0000

according to the w3c specification you are never allowed to have an end tag on the tag which you have with the in your example.

check out http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html

By: Badfox

Badfox — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:46:59 +0000

Firefox is so buggy, I wish I didn’t have to write pages that support it. It takes up so much extra development time it’s ridiculous. World Firefox Day is when I tell people to stay the hell away from it.

By: Gurvinder Singh Manjotra

Gurvinder Singh Manjotra — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:03:07 +0000

Of course form submission wouldn’t work out in FireFox. The solution behind is write all html tags like ….. which recognizes & will submit the document.

Gurvinder Singh Manjotra
Project Manager
Contact : gs_manjotra@yahoo.com

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Fri, 26 May 2006 19:43:35 +0000

What is your purpose for doing that?

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 26 May 2006 18:25:49 +0000

I’m having a similar problem that I had working in test scenarios, then I went to a full implementation (with very little code change) and it stopped working correctly in Firefox. The form is an auto-looping form that works with AJAX to request data from a database. In Firefox the autorun() function runs through once and the document.form[0].submit() function works the first time. When I recall the autorun function for the second iteration the document.form[0].submit() function fails, but Firefox does not specify an error. I know the code is correct and everything works in IE, but Firefox gives issues.

The strange part is I have a similar function to submit data to a database which works perfectly with the same structure. I believe it’s a major Firefox issue with Javascript and forms that should be resolved sometime soon.

By: dts

dts — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:54:16 +0000

firefox having lots of other javascript issues.

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:02:17 +0000

You may have a point…

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:38:48 +0000

Yeah, it doesn’t work in Firefox. However, its probably an intentional bug to cause f-tards that build forms like that to have a hard time forcing them to leave the web development community forever. Anyone that places label tags around reset and submit buttons should be taken out and shot.

Some people are squirrel handed. Thank you. That is all.