GNU bug report logs - #39867
26.3; EWW does not show textarea content

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 15:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 43176

Found in versions 26.1, 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39867 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39867: 26.3; EWW does not show textarea content
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:44:24 +0200

Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I notice EWW doesn't show the textarea element's contents, for example,
> save the following to a.html
>
>     <textarea>HELLO</textarea>
>
> then 'M-x eww-open-file a.html' shows some empty lines without any text.
>
> The following patch fixes the issue for me. And the old code seems
> assuming <textarea value='HELLO'></textarea>, which is not correct.

[...]

> - (value (or (dom-attr dom 'value) ""))
> + (value (or (dom-text dom) ""))

Thanks; applied to Emacs 28.1.

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