[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 169296] Label of an <option> element should not be displayed when textContent of the element is empty

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169296

--- Comment #5 from Chris Dumez <cdumez at apple.com> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > > Label of an <option> element should not be displayed when textContent of the element is empty
> > 
> > @David: Do you have a link to a spec that says this is the expected behavior?
> 
> What I found is:
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#the-select-element-2
> 
> which says:
> "An option element is expected to be rendered by displaying the element's
> label, indented under its optgroup element if it has one."
> 
> label points to:
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#concept-option-label
> 
> which says:
> "The label attribute provides a label for element. The label of an option
> element is the value of the label content attribute, if there is one and its
> value is not the empty string, or, otherwise, the value of the element's
> text IDL attribute."

So as far as I can tell, we match the HTML spec here. If it does not match other browsers, we likely want to file a bug against the HTML spec.

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