Fix serialization and mutation of <textarea> elements (#1351)

* Fix serialization and mutation of <textarea> elements taking account the duality that the value can be set in either the child node, or in the value _parameter_ (not attribute)

* Backwards compatibility: Bug fix and regression test for #112
 - this is to fix up 'historical' recordings, as duplicate textarea content should no longer be being created at record time
 - new test shows what the snapshot generated by previous versions of rrweb used to look like, hence 'bad'
 - original 0efe23f04a fix either didn't work or no longer works due to childNodes being appended subsequent to this part of the code
 - during review, we also verified that the `_cssText` case should still be handled okay, as there's currently no scenario where csstext is present with css child nodes of a <style>

* Masking: Fix that textarea values were being missed by the masking system if the value was recorded as a child node
 - I didn't notice that form.html was used in other tests, so lucky that I noticed that those tests also should have the 'pre value' masked out

* Simplify by always storing the textarea value in the `.value` attribute (from it's DOM property) and not as a childNode. It should still be rebuilt as a childNode rather than a property
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Authored-by: eoghanmurray <eoghan@getthere.ie>

packages/rrweb-snapshot/src/rebuild.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import {
   tagMap,
   elementNode,
   BuildCache,
-  attributes,
   legacyAttributes,
 } from './types';
 import { isElement, Mirror, isNodeMetaEqual } from './utils';
@@ -200,14 +199,9 @@ function buildNode(
           value = addHoverClass(value, cache);
         }
         if ((isTextarea || isRemoteOrDynamicCss) && typeof value === 'string') {
-          const child = doc.createTextNode(value);
+          node.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(value));
           // https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb/issues/112
-          for (const c of Array.from(node.childNodes)) {
-            if (c.nodeType === node.TEXT_NODE) {
-              node.removeChild(c);
-            }
-          }
-          node.appendChild(child);
+          n.childNodes = []; // value overrides childNodes
           continue;
         }
 

packages/rrweb-snapshot/src/snapshot.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   MaskInputFn,
   KeepIframeSrcFn,
   ICanvas,
+  elementNode,
   serializedElementNodeWithId,
 } from './types';
 import {
@@ -672,10 +673,9 @@ function serializeElementNode(
       attributes.type !== 'button' &&
       value
     ) {
-      const type = getInputType(n);
       attributes.value = maskInputValue({
         element: n,
-        type,
+        type: getInputType(n),
         tagName,
         value,
         maskInputOptions,
@@ -1090,10 +1090,19 @@ export function serializeNodeWithId(
       stylesheetLoadTimeout,
       keepIframeSrcFn,
     };
-    for (const childN of Array.from(n.childNodes)) {
-      const serializedChildNode = serializeNodeWithId(childN, bypassOptions);
-      if (serializedChildNode) {
-        serializedNode.childNodes.push(serializedChildNode);
+
+    if (
+      serializedNode.type === NodeType.Element &&
+      serializedNode.tagName === 'textarea' &&
+      (serializedNode as elementNode).attributes.value !== undefined
+    ) {
+      // value parameter in DOM reflects the correct value, so ignore childNode
+    } else {
+      for (const childN of Array.from(n.childNodes)) {
+        const serializedChildNode = serializeNodeWithId(childN, bypassOptions);
+        if (serializedChildNode) {
+          serializedNode.childNodes.push(serializedChildNode);
+        }
       }
     }