102273 - The checkbox & radio button registers a keyboard 'enter' as a form submission

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P1)

Description

[Madhur Bhatia]

1. Go to the above mentioned url
2. bring focus on any checkbox by tabbing to it.
3. hit the 'enter' key

actual:
There is a form submission. It infact goes to the following url ( in my case)

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expected:
When i tab to a checkbox and hit the enter key - it is just suposed to 
select/deselect the checkbox control - not do form submission

Happening on all platforms - 09/28/01 branch builds

Comment 1

[Madhur Bhatia]

nominating for nsbranch. ** A really bad bug **

Comment 2

[Madhur Bhatia]

The same behaviour is seen for input-Radio form controls. 

Go to http://lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login 

tab to the radio buttons . The focus is now on the control. Hit 'enter' key. 
It does a form submission too. It displays the following message -- 

"You are about to leave an encrypted page. Information you send or receive from 
now on could easily be read by third party."

Comment 3

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Should this one be nsbranch+?

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

This behavior was caused by pollmann's checkin 1.180 of nsHTMLInputElement.cpp, 
he did it on purpose, but the Bug # was wrong in the checkin and I can't find 
the bug.

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This was done to make mozilla work like IE does, IE does exactly the same thing,
so this is as designed, unless I missed something. The bug Eric was fixing when
he changed how this works was bug 22526 (see patch 5).

IMO this is a WONTFIX, we now work as IE does, and most people seem to love it.

Comment 6

[rods (gone)]

won't fix, it is IE behavior

Comment 7

[Madhur Bhatia]

In IE 6.0 --
when I do a keyboard 'enter' - it **does not** result in a form submission. 
Infact nothing happens when u hit 'enter' in the checkbox form control or radio 
button form control ( I suppose this is the behaviour we are trying to get in NS 
6.2)

whereas, in build ID : 2001-10-01-05-0.9.4 (branch) Win32--
a keyboard 'enter' - results in a form submission.

I disagree that the latest build works in the same manner as IE does. 
For our product to be following what IE does, with respect to checkbox and radio 
button - we need to rectify the  'form submission' problem.

I am reopening this bug for further evaluation. 

Point to consider 
=================
** upon hitting keyboard 'enter' for checkbox and radio button , the result 
should not be form submission. Like IE, nothing should happen - i.e. the control 
should not be checked/unchecked **

Comment 8

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The current mozilla behavior matches IE 5.5's behavior, I don't know what IE 6.0
does, nor am I sure we need to care, hardly anyone uses IE 6.0 yet.

Comment 9

[rods (gone)]

The difference between us and IE 6.0, is that we always submit when a radio or 
check has focus and IE only submits if there is a submitter (input=image, 
submit, button, html4 button)

Comment 10

[Madhur Bhatia]

checked in IE 5.5 -- 
1) For checkbox controls, user can tab through the controls but can not 
select/deselect using keyboard 'enter'. see 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi

2) For Radio buttons, user can not even tab through the unselected radio button 
control. see http://www.hotmail.com ; http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?p= 

in both these cases - hitting enter on checkbox or radio button does not result 
in a form submission.

our product - build id : 2001-10-01-05-0.9.4 (branch build) win32 - is ** doing 
a form submission **

What I have understood from the previous developers comments is that - our 
product should behave in the same manner as does IE 5.5 (above mentioned points 
1 & 2). I am sure we do not want to do a form submission, too. IE 5.5 does not 
do that.

Comment 11

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

IE 5.5 does indeed submit forms when you hit enter if a radio or checkbox is
focused. Follow the steps in this bug (i.e. go to
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi...), or the hotmail URL, hitting enter
does indeed submit the form, at least on my installation.

Comment 12

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Marking nsbranch-.

Comment 13

[rods (gone)]

moving to 0.9.6

Comment 14

[rods (gone)]

Moving to Future

Comment 15

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

this sounds pretty bad. is there a chance we could get this one fixed for M1.0?

Comment 16

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

using WindowsXP/IE 6.0 tabbing to a checkbox in a bugzilla query and hitting
enter submits the form.  Mozilla build 2002012903 behaves exactly the same as IE
6.0 in this regard.

Comment 17

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Using WinXP/IE 6.0 on http://www.hotmail.com hitting enter when focus is on
radio button submits the form. This is also the same behavior as Mozilla. 

Resolving WONTFIX.