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Bug 15596 - option.value IDL attribute should return |text| IDL attribute instead of |textContent| when no value is set
Summary: option.value IDL attribute should return |text| IDL attribute instead of |tex...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-01-17 17:49 UTC by Mounir Lamouri
Modified: 2012-02-07 00:57 UTC (History)
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Description Mounir Lamouri 2012-01-17 17:49:15 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-02-07 00:56:15 UTC 
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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.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-02-07 00:57:52 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6975.
Check-in comment: Match implementations better.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6974&to=6975