Bug Report:
    155097
Date:
    2004-10-25
Note:
    Slight improvement in 8.00b3.
Note:
    Partly fixed in 9.00b1. Form submissions still transmits trailing
    line breaks.

Version:
    Opera 7.60/Windows98/PC
Build:
    7141
Brief Summary:
    Inconsistent handling of line breaks in <textarea>.
Severity:
    Spec violation
Part affected:
    Forms
URL:
    http://home.swipnet.se/sigsegv/opera/bugs/textarea-linebreak.html
Detailed description:

    Opera renders line breaks immediately after <textarea>,
    and before </textarea> as part of the text inside the
    control. It also submit these line breaks as part of the
    form data. The line breaks should be ignored.

    HTML 4.01: B.3.1 Line breaks:

       "SGML (see [ISO8879], section 7.6.1) specifies that a line
        break immediately following a start tag must be ignored,
        as must a line break immediately before an end tag. This
        applies to all HTML elements without exception."

    HTML 4.01: 9.3.2 Controlling line breaks:

       "A line break is defined to be a carriage return (&#x000D;),
        a line feed (&#x000A;), or a carriage return/line feed pair."

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