309573 - javascript function named onclick is used as body onclick

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Trevan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.4

I was creating a test script to test the document.getElementsByName and
accidentally named my javascript function onclick (I was going to name it test).
 This caused the function to be called everytime I clicked on the page.  No
matter if it is right button, left button or where it is.  So, I decided to see
what if I changed the function to onblur.  Bad idea, couldn't get out of an
infinite loop of alerts.  But it looks like that the name onclick is causing
Firefox to consider it as its onclick handler.  I don't think that is how it
should work, but I might be wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to the web page
2.  Click where ever you like
3.

Actual Results:  
Alert message is shown

Expected Results:  
Alert message should never be shown since the function should never be called as
it is not set as an event handler to any of the items.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Everybody sets on*** handlers using window.on*** = function() { ... }, so this
has to work.

|window| is the global object on HTML pages.

Therefore when you declare an onclick function, a property with that name is
created in the global object (window.onclick) pointing to your function.

It works how it supposed to work. Marking invalid.