107988 - Cannot set focus on a field in JavaScript eventHandler fucntion

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 109962

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[NJ Yang]

in Netscape 6, forms's field.focus() method does not work. 

<input type="text" name="field1" onBlur="myHandler(this);>
function myHandler( field )
{
  //dosome validation here...
  if ( failed) {
    field.focus();
    return false;
  }
  else 
    return true;
}

Comment 1

[Fabian Guisset]

Which Netscape version are you using? Can you reproduce in a Mozilla build (this
is Mozilla's bug database)?

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: Reduced testcase

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

I believe I have captured the bug in the reduced testcase. 

Confirming bug. In NN4.7 and IE4, the upper textbox steals the focus
as soon as you type more than three characters in it. Using Mozilla
trunk binaries20011030xx on WinNT, Linux, however, the upper textbox
never steals the focus no matter how many characters you type -


OS : Win ---> All. This is not JS Engine; reassigning to DOM Level 0.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Over to event handling.

Comment 5

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

This looks like the same thing as bug 109962.  I'm duping up because it has an
even further reduced testcase.

Comment 6

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

I mean it this time :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109962 ***

Comment 7

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying