802874 - Version 16 has a bug with inline event handling, such as onChange, onBlur

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Michael Baker]

Attachment: firefoxbug.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4

Steps to reproduce:

		function getItems() {
			alert("hello");
		}

<select name="jungle" id="jungle" onchange="getItems()">
				<option value="a">A</option>
				<option value="b">B</option>
				<option value="c">C</option>
				<option value="d">D</option>
				<option value="e">E</option>
				<option value="f">F</option>
				<option value="g">G</option>
				</select>


Actual results:

nothing.


Expected results:

there should have been an alert with "hello"

HOWEVER: in some instances it does work.  We have a screen (attached) with multiple onChange events, the first one works, the second one doesn't.  We don't know why - no message in the console, no exceptions reported in the developer tools.

Comment 1

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

getItems() conflicts with Microdata API which is introduced since Firefox 16.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/microdata.html#microdata-dom-api

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, the problem is that the document is on the scope chain for event handlers....  If you use event handlers, you want to prefix global function calls in them with "window." to avoid problems like this.