From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-15mdk i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001030 BuildID: 20001030 If you update the value of a textarea when it's wrapped in a div with display: none set, the new value will be lost when the DIV is made visible again Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Open test case I'll submit. Follow instructions Actual Results: the value the textarea had before it was made invisible is returned when it is made visible again, even if that value has changed via javascript. Expected Results: the textarea should retain the value I give it, no matter what happens to it. IE renders as I would expect Textboxes render as I would expect (even in mozilla). This bug causes dataloss since updates to hidden textareas are lost when that textarea is made visible again. This bug is critical for the above reason and since the workaround (saving values and resetting them after the textarea is unhidden) is really hokey and very prone to error. Plus it makes us look silly

Changing to HTML Form Controls and confirming. The textarea's value is part of the DOM, so it should be stored in the DOM (not the frames). That's what having a DOM implementation means, right?

this is a dup, reassigning

duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57269 ***