173605 - tabbing gets stuck

Status: NEW

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

Description

[timeless]

[from bug 173542] load the page, press and hold <tab>. you'll get stuck at the ?

Comment 1

[Ethan]

Heh - you beat me to submitting this :-)

It seems that Moz doesn't filter out the tab key for the 'onkeypress' event.

http://mrtall.com/bugzilla/broken.html

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

-> bryner, focus

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Is preventDefault getting set or something?

keypress="return(showHelp('email-pop-deleteacct1'))" 

Mozilla is not getting a chance to use that tab press.

Comment 4

[Harry Loots]

Here are my observations:
in order to make site accessible, both onclick and onkeypress event handlers are
used in an anchor <a> tag:
it seems that Mozilla (rightly or wrongly?) interprets 'tab' key-press as an
pnkeypress event, and thus fires up the associated event. What this means is
that Mozilla gets stuck on this event, and does not tab beyond this event.
<code><a href="/file.html"
onclick="window.open('/file.html','window','etc');return false;"
onkeypress="window.open('/file.html','window','etc');return false;">link
name</a></code>

is there an interim workaround for this? (PS! this behaviour was observed in
Mozilla 1.2 and 1.3 on Win2K pc. Have not tested on other os; but have tested in
IE browsers, which work as expected - ie: tabbing does just that; no event
handlers are fired until a key - other than tab - is pressed.

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

URL is 404.

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #1