From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-15mdk i686) BuildID: 2000060221 if you have a form element (I've tried textarea and text) that has a stylesheet of style="display: none" It does not appear that that form elements value is being passed to the server when a post is performed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open test case that I'll attach 2. Ensure the text box is visible and press the submit button 3. Re-open test case. Now toggle the display property of the text box to none. 4. Press submit again Actual Results: When the text box is visible (i.e. display: block), you will get its contents echoed back to you. When the text box is invisible (display: none) a null is reported on the server side. Expected Results: I would expect that the form element's value would be sent, regardless of the display property

It's true, so CONFIRMED. I have not looked at this in depth. Note that INPUTs of type HIDDEN are correctly sent, and they are display:none, so the issue may be more complicated than it seems.

Normally we get the current state of the textarea and text field from its frame. But if it is set to display:none a frame is not created. In this case we need to get the current value from the saved data. Reassigning to Eric.

This is already reported as bug 34297, thanks! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34297 ***

Verified Duplicate.