thx for reporting this here, lucideer.

fearphage also reported this it seems:

Another bug (DSK-321133): accepts any value (unlike date, datetime-local, number, week, month)

Fix:

If you force a reflow in between setting the input value and checking the input value, Opera reports correctly. So...

inputElem.value = smile;
docElement.appendChild(inputElem).offsetWidth; // force reflow

... makes it work.

Wow. nice hack. :)

thx man!

http://miketaylr.com/code/html5-forms-ui-support.html

^ this page was reporting correctly in Opera, so I had a look at figuring out why. Turns out jQuery inadvertently forces a document reflow while it's testing to see if W3C box model is supported, when it loads up - hence the test works there.

Demo fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/paul/SunVF/5/ (it alert()s 4 times. sry)

Opera 11 supports <input type=color> with a colorpicker UI but Modernizr is reporting false.

The main problem is the Opera is very slow to enforce input value constraint validation onto the element. Currently Opera 11 changes it to #000000 but only at the window load event. That is too late for our purposes.

To match the results of the other input values, the value validation would be applied even when the element is not yet added to the DOM.

and miketaylr sez..

so possibly CORE-35065 has been reported as fixed as of 1-10 which looks super related... if so, that means when 11.10 drops it should work

The main problem is the Opera is very slow to enforce input value constraint validation onto the element. Currently Opera 11 changes it to #0 but only at the window load event. That is too late for our purposes.

I don't think that's the case. It's nothing to do with timing or the window load event. What you're seeing happening there is, Mootools (I guess - or some script loaded on that jsfiddle page) is triggering a document reflow at the window load event, which causes Opera to correct the value. You can trigger a document reflow as early as you like though - as I mentioned above.

Yeah agreed. When I refound this bug, i had forgotten you already provided the fix.
I'll probably land the reflow fix temporarily until Opera 11.10 drops.

thx lucideer

inputtypes fixup. Address Opera 11 type=color bug. Visually hide the type=range
Cache the inputElemType for speed.

I hope to remove the extra Opera handling when 11.10 comes out.

Closed by be9c058

This seems to have been since remedied, perhaps it's time to remove this workaround?