172829 - Type Ahead Find is not aware of frames

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[kasper b. graversen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

going to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/

and pressing either the big frame to the rigth or the lower small one and trying
to use tho "type ahead" by typing same keys, only links in the uppel left frame
is found even though I activated the other frames by using the mouse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open going to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/
2. select a frame 
3. type some keys

Actual Results:  
every time its the upper left frame which is searched rather than the other frames

Expected Results:  
search the frame which is active..

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Keyboard nav

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Typeaheadfind is designed to start with what's visible, unless there's a visible
selection or focused element on the page.

So if you select some text, the search will start from there.

Comment 3

[Waheed Islam]

worksForMe - always.
20021013 - win2000.

has always worked for me.
please test using a newer build.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

WORKSFORME.

Please reopen if you still have a problem.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this also wfm with today's trunk build on win2k.