115367 - onkeypress and onKeyup on anchor element

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Rakesh Mishra]

The onKeyPress and onKeyUp not behaving as expected on the "anchor" element.
Tested on the windows 2000(build windows 2001-12-14-06 trunk)

Comment 1

[Rakesh Mishra]

Attachment: onkeypress and onkey up

steps to reproduce:
1.open the attachment
2 [details] [diff] [review].put focus on the text "onkeypress" and hit any key
3.an alert box should open up saying "Key was pressed !"
4.do the same for the text "onkeyup"
5.click on the text "onClick", an alert box opens up saying "Mouse Clicked!".

Comment 2

[Rakesh Mishra]

changing qa contact

Comment 3

[joki (gone)]

Typically anchor's without href's are not focusable items (and therefore cannot
receive key events).  I cannot find a specific definition of this in the W3C
spec but it is the behavior followed by Netscape 4.x, Mozilla, and IE.  If hrefs
are added to the anchor they will behave properly.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED WONTFIX (or INVALID -- unfocussable elements can't receive key events)