RE: empty textarea broken in IE6, mozilla

I apologize if this message appears twice--but it does not appear to have
been successfully sent.  - b.

> From: Zakon, Stuart [mailto:stuart_zakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 11:28 AM
> Subject:  empty textarea broken in IE6, mozilla
> 
> 
> I am a bit surprised that empty <textarea> inputs on forms 
> really break the
> current generation of browsers, both IE 6 and mozilla 1.
> 
> What happens is that all the HTML on the page after the 
> textarea is shown by
> the browsers as the CONTENTS of the text area! (You have to 
> see the bug to
> believe it.)
> 
> It appears that the problem is that the XSL processor 
> (Xalan-C) optimizes
> the empty element as follows:
>      <textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="5" class="bodytext" />
> 
> The browsers absolutely choke on this. 
> 
> Manually changing the generated HTML to include the 
> </textarea> end tag
> fixes the problem.
> 
> Is there a way to suppress this optimization of empty elements? My
> <xsl:output> method is "html".

I suspect you may also be seeing <br /> and the like in your output.

I don't have experience with Xalan-C, only the Java version, but you may
need to explicitly set <xsl:output method="html" version="4.0"/>, or even
use -HTML when invoking the processor to write transitional 4.0 HTML, to
prevent it from minimizing empty elements (I have no idea if you're using a
presentation service or a command-line operation to do the transform).

cheers,
b.

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