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Why does Value attribute of html text input forms not display in FF? It displays properly in Chrome-21, IE8, Opera 12

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hopon
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was testing simple form html as follows:

<style type="text/css"> </style>

<form> Username: <input type="text" name="username" value="Enter Name Here">

Text for the "value" attribute "Enter Name Here" did not display when page rendered in FF 15.0.1, but does fine in other mentioned browsers.

</form>
was testing simple form html as follows: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "_//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> </style> </head> <body> <form> Username: <input type="text" name="username" value="Enter Name Here"/> </body> </html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text for the "value" attribute "Enter Name Here" did not display when page rendered in FF 15.0.1, but does fine in other mentioned browsers.

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hello hopon, when i just put these two lines into a .html file it works for me. could you try to do the troubleshooting steps at Websites look wrong or appear differently than they should or reset firefox...

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philipp
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hello hopon, when i just put these two lines into a .html file it works for me. could you try to do the troubleshooting steps at Websites look wrong or appear differently than they should or reset firefox...

hopon
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Hi madperson, I went thru the troubleshooting steps with no change in the problem, but doing a full reset worked. Thanks :0)

Also: How do I mark a problem as solved? If there's a button, I'm just not seeing it.

philipp
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ok thanks for reporting back - by marking the prior answer as solution the question is considered as solved.

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