Subject: Re: bug#43176: 26.1; EWW fails to display text in textarea
From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
To: Nicolas Graner <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:04:31 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

>>>>> On Wed, 02 Sep 2020 23:05:44 +0200, Nicolas Graner <[email-masked]> said:

    Nicolas> Whenever EWW renders a page that includes a <textarea> element which
    Nicolas> contains text, that text is not displayed.

    Nicolas> The reason is that the text of a textarea is not given in an
    Nicolas> attribute, as with other input elements, but as the textual contents
    Nicolas> of the element.

    Nicolas> Specifically, in function 'eww-tag-textarea', the line:
    Nicolas> 	(value (or (dom-attr dom 'value) ""))
    Nicolas> should be replaced with:
    Nicolas>         (value (or (dom-text dom) ""))

    Nicolas> Hope this helps,
    Nicolas> Nicolas Graner

Thanks. This bug had already been fixed on master, and will be part of
emacs-28

Robert