280567 - Unable to tab to <link> elements

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Steps to reproduce:

1)  Load http://web.mit.edu/bzbarsky/www/index.shtml
2)  View menu (in Seamonkey), and select "Use Style > Debug Look"
3)  Try to tab to the links that say "Alternate stylesheet ....."

ACTUAL RESULTS: can't tab to them

EXPECTED RESULTS: can tab to them

Note that in all other ways Gecko treats these as equivalent to <a> -- they are
styled as links, clicking will follow them.  They just can't be focused.

The problem, of course, is that there is no tabindex property on <link>.  Sounds
like nsHTMLLinkElement should override IsFocusable....

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

also occurs in firefox. tested with 20050129-trunk build; go to View > Page
Style > Debug Look for step 2.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Attachment: patch?

This seems to fix the case mentioned in comment 0, but I'm not sure that setting aTabIndex to 0 unconditionally is correct.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's not, imo.  See what nsHTMLAnchorElement::IsFocusable does -- we probably want to do something similar here.