11161 2010-10-28 21:22:28 +0000 form.action, button.formAction and input.formAction IDL attributes should return the document location when the content attribute is the empty string 2011-08-04 05:12:22 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified All All CLOSED FIXED data:text/html,<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><form action=""></form><script>alert(document.forms[0].action);</script></body></html> P2 normal --- 1 mounir ian ayg ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 41820 0 mounir 2010-10-28 21:22:28 +0000 Currently, those attributes reflects the content attribute as an URL so when the content attribute is the empty string, it will return the base URL but the form submission algorithm specifies that when action="", the submission URL should be the document location. It would be nice to have the IDL attributes reflecting this specificity. 43575 1 ian 2010-12-27 23:43:57 +0000 What do browsers do today with .action? 43589 2 mounir 2010-12-28 10:37:09 +0000 Testcase in the URL. Opera 11, Gecko 1.9 (and trunk) and IE6 return the empty string. Webkit returns the document location. So, no one returns what the spec require: the base URL. I guess we should change the spec to follow what is the legacy behavior or spec the logical one which might not be too dangerous if Webkit did it. 44310 3 ian 2011-01-13 00:01:35 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 44311 4 contributor 2011-01-13 00:02:48 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r5785. Check-in comment: make .action and .formAction handle the empty string more like the content attribute gets processed, for sanity (even though that value is technically not valid anyway) http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5784&to=5785 53293 5 mike 2011-08-04 05:12:22 +0000 mass-move component to LC1