#8627: Textarea misses first line if empty (in display)
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Reporter: bastih | Owner: bastih
Status: closed | Milestone: 1.0
Component: Forms | Version: SVN
Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: forms textarea
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 1
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by toke):
Replying to [comment:2 mtredinnick]:
> I'm not sure I like this. It changes the data without the user's
consent. If you load a form, then save, then load again, then save again
(e.g. whilst editing), blank lines keep getting added to your data.
In the wild the opposite happens (At least in Safari, Firefox, IE7, Opera,
lynx and others). If you rely on lets say one or two newlines in front of
other data in a textarea the first newline will get eaten on every save. I
have not found a current browser yet that handles this different. Opera
has even changed this behavior to ignore the first line:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=94823
Use for example FlatPage in admin enter some newlines in the textarea and
then some other visible characters. Now hit "Save and continue editing"
several times and watch the characters wandering upwards. In reverse
entering something different to a newline will work fine. With that patch
no additional newline is stored in the database.
The Spec is not 100% clear here but all major Browsers implement it on the
same way.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.7
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