[whatwg] HTMLOptionElement::value compatibility

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, TAMURA, Kent wrote:
>
> The `value' DOM attribute of HTMLOptionElement is incompatible with the
> current major browsers.
> The spec says:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#dom-option-value
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#dom-option-value>
>   The disabled, label, and value DOM attributes must
> reflect<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#reflect>
> the
> respective content
>   attributes of the same name.
> 
> However .value in IE8, Firefox3.5, Chrome2, Safari4, and Opera10b2 doesn't
> work so.  It returns the value of `value' HTML attribute, or the value of
> .text DOM attribute if the element doesn't have the `value' HTML attribute
> or the value of `value' HTML attribute is empty.  If we substitute a string
> to .value DOM attribute, the `value' HTML attribute is updated.
> 
> The spec should follow this behavior.

Thanks, fixed.

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