15596 2012-01-17 17:49:15 +0000 option.value IDL attribute should return |text| IDL attribute instead of |textContent| when no value is set 2012-02-07 00:57:52 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 mounir ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 62813 0 mounir 2012-01-17 17:49:15 +0000 The difference between |text| and |textContent| being: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-button-element.html#dom-option-text For what I've seen, Gecko, Webkit and Presto doesn't follow the spec and return .text instead of .textContent when requesting option.value. IE9 and IE10PP are returning .textContent when getting .value. However, it seems that .text is submitted instead of .value which is kind of odd. By the way, wouldn't that be easier to simply say that value IDL attribute, when getting, should reflect the |value| of the element as explained here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-button-element.html#concept-option-value 63799 1 ian 2012-02-07 00:56:15 +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. Demoes: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1323 http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1324 We can't reflect the #concept-option-value, "reflect" is defined in terms of content attributes. 63800 2 contributor 2012-02-07 00:57:52 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6975. Check-in comment: Match implementations better. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6974&to=6975