Closed Bug 435607 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

If a link is placed inside of a label tag with an input submission button, which it shouldn't be, <br>the link will submit the form if the href attribute of the link contains a javascript request.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows Vista
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 163912

People

(Reporter: sickbeatz, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0 If a link is placed inside of a label tag with an input submission button, which it shouldn't be, the link will submit the form if the href attribute of the link contains a javascript request. If the href attribute is not javascript, the form does not submit. Here is a sample: <html> <head><title>Firefox 3rc1 label bug</title> </head><body> <h1>Firefox 3rc1 label bug</h1> <p>If a link is placed inside of a label tag with an input submission button, which it shouldn't be, <br>the link will submit the form if the href attribute of the link contains a javascript request.</p> <form action="destination.php"> <label> <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit"> <a href="javascript:void(0);">Link that should do nothing</a> </label> </form> </body> </html> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a form 2. Create a label with a submit button and a link (bad code) 3. Make the href attribute for the link a javascript request 4. Click the link Actual Results: The form is submitted. Expected Results: The javascript request should fire off instead of the form submission.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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