10175 - problem with onMouseOver doing stuff to stuff in forms tha the link aint part of

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Booton]

This one is kind of hard to explain but on my site I'm making a thing that has a
textarea in a form in a cell in a table and all the links in he table have
onMouseovers that will change the value of the textarea so that it will explain
what the link goes too. Here's the problem , to link the onMouseOver to the form
I need to do a onMouseOver="(form name).(control name).value='(text)'" . In Nav
4.5 and IE 5.0 it will interpret it corretly and change the value of the
textarea to what i specify. But in mozilla build from June 17 (1999071708) I get
an error that the value is not defined, which seems incorect. I also get the
same error on 2.0 but I have not tried it in 3.0 . Anyway I'll attach the file
so you can see it for yourself.

Comment 1

[Chris Booton]

Attachment: the html file with the problem

Comment 2

[Chris Booton]

This may also be showing another separate table bug (?) . Notice how in 5.0 the
text in the table is left alligned, but in ie 5.0 and netscape 4.5 it is center
aligned as specified in the <tr> tag (<tr align="center" valign="middle") . So
unless html 4.0 says that you need to specify this for each <td> tag then there
may be a separate table bug.

Comment 3

[cbegle]

wrong component -- this is event handling stuff.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

Taking this from Tom, at Tom's request

Comment 5

[rods (gone)]

You can't name a form element "links", it is a reserved JavaScript word. Rename
it to pagelinks and everything works fine. resolved as invalid.

Comment 6

[Jan Carpenter]

verified