1214156 - Firefox for Android: when tapped below text field, it gets focus

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Mikhail]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.99 Safari/537.36
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 41.0 and Firefox 42.0 (Beta)
Android 5.1

Tap below of text field (`<input type="text>`).

Example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/KdvGZj

<input type="text" class="input">
<div class="line"></div>

.input {
  width: 100%;
}
.line {
  height: 1em;
  background: red;
  margin-top: 0.3em;
}


Actual results:

Text field gets focus.


Expected results:

Text field should not get focus.
User should be able to click on element below the textfield.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We have touch detection code that finds tapable items if it is within a reasonable radius. There was a bug that was fixed in Firefox 42, bug 1227974. Did this make the behavior better?

Comment 2

[u554753]

Closing issue due to lack of response from reporter. If this issue is still pertinent, please reopen and provide the requested information. Thanks!