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Bug #44768 getAttribute can't find textarea value
Submitted: 2008-04-17 22:51 UTC Modified: 2008-04-18 11:59 UTC
From: sathia dot musso at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-04-17 22:51 UTC] sathia dot musso at gmail dot com 
Description:
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I know there's no such attribute value="" but you can't access the content ($textarea->textContent will not work as well) of that if the content inside is wrapped within "lt" and "gt" <textarea><won't read></textarea> (ie when you read embed tags from textarea)

Reproduce code:
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$documentx = new DOMDocument();
$documentx->loadHTML($data);
$textareas = $documentx->getElementsByTagName("textarea");
foreach($textareas AS $textarea){
   print($textarea->getAttribute("value"));
}




<textarea><img src="foobar" /></textarea>

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 [2008-04-18 04:42 UTC] chregu@php.net 
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

If there's no attribute "value" then there's nothing to print then 
there's no output.

  print $textarea->nodeName;

instead of

  print $textarea->getAttribute("value");

does produced some expected thing.
 [2008-04-18 11:55 UTC] sathia dot musso at gmail dot com 
I can't understand what "expected thing" should be.
I agree that the dom parser sees the textarea,
but if the textarea content is wrapped within < and > there is no way to read its content.

<textarea><img src="foobar" /></textarea>

In javascript if you set the value of a textarea to be "xxx" it's filled correctly even if the attribute value does not exists in the textarea tag


thank you for your time
 [2008-04-18 11:59 UTC] sathia dot musso at gmail dot com 
this should help to understand, in Javascript you can access this strange attribute

<textarea id="pippo"></textarea>

<script>
document.getElementById('pippo').value = "<embed embed>";
alert(document.getElementById('pippo').value);
</script>

this work as expected, in php you can't do that.

(i know that javascript is a client side script, I use it just as an example of a DOM abstraction)
 
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