Bug 220499

Created attachment 417343 [details] Screenshot of error. Placeholder text in a textarea can have newlines. But WebKit strips them out. Steps to reproduce: Create a `<textarea>` with a multi-line placeholder. ``` <textarea placeholder="In loving memory of Buffy Anne Summers She saved the world A lot..."></textarea> ``` Actual results: The placeholder renders as a single line. The newlines are removed and there's no replacement whitespace: `In loving memory ofBuffy Anne SummersShe saved the worldA lot...` Expected results: Placeholder should display over multiple lines. Spec: > User agents should present this hint to the user when the element’s value is the empty string and the control is not focused (e.g., by displaying it inside a blank unfocused control). All U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN U+000A LINE FEED character pairs (CRLF) in the hint, as well as all other U+000D CARRIAGE RETURN (CR) and U+000A LINE FEED (LF) characters in the hint, must be treated as line breaks when rendering the hint. https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#element-attrdef-textarea-placeholder I've tested this on WebKitGTK 2.30.4 on Linux, and seen the problem on the latest Safari for iPhone. (This bug was also reported to Firefox, and fixed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391044)