OK.  Is it useful for me to submit a patch?

Browser, BTW, is text-mode links: latest version, but doesn't see
a lot of development.

-mg


On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:43:17AM -0800, Anthony wrote:
> In fact, wrapping in the div with display:none may not be necessary anyway 
> -- I think that itself was probably just a hack to deal with very old 
> browsers in which hidden fields took up some space in the display.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 10:37:51 AM UTC-5, Anthony wrote:
> >
> > Are you using an old browser? I don't think this is a problem in modern 
> > browsers.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> > On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 12:32:03 AM UTC-5, ..mg.. wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi! 
> >>
> >> I'm trying to run a simple web2py (2.13.4-stable) form from links 
> >> (2.8/2.12), 
> >> and I've found a strange bug. 
> >>
> >> web2py's form.accepts is failing because the formkey and formname fields 
> >> aren't being submitted.  links isn't submitting those fields because 
> >> web2py is wrapping them in a <div style="display:none;">. 
> >>
> >> Replacing my line 2183 in gluon/html.py, in FORM.hidden_fields: 
> >>
> >>         return DIV(c, _style="display:none;") 
> >>
> >> with 
> >>
> >>         return DIV(c) 
> >>
> >> fixes the problem for me. 
> >>
> >> I'm wondering:  what's the reason behind the "display: none;" there?  I 
> >> can understand the browser not submitting them on security concerns, but 
> >> I'm ignorant of what the specs say about this corner case. 
> >>
> >> Best, 
> >>
> >> -mg 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> 
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