130298 - Does not select item in menu when using arrow keys

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 126379

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

Description

[Ryan WYler]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

In the example page you will find that you can select on the fields with the
mouse and it will do different things.  If you change the fields with the arrow
keys, it won't change the appropriate fields.  Not sure if this is a javascript
issue or just a browser issue.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Goto web page at http://www.nhorizon.net/~ryan/mozilla_bug1.html
2.  Click on the field "category" 
3.  Use arrow keys to change the values, notice it doesn't change anything in
other fields. (only changes the current field)

Actual Results:  The only field that changes is one that you're moving the arrow
keys in.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have done the javascript function that would
have changed the other fields.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Example #2 - same, but with more space between form controls

Same patch as above, but more space so that popup doesn't cover other form
controls.

It doesn't do anything for me script-wise whether I use the mouse or the
keyboard.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Example #2 - same, but with more space between form controls

Same patch as above, but more space so that popup doesn't cover other form
controls.

It doesn't do anything for me script-wise whether I use the mouse or the
keyboard.
What is it supposed to do exactly?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I am the one who requested Mozilla's current behavior (in bug 110800).  The 
reason I asked for onchange to not fire right away is that web developers who 
use onchange often make the assumption that the user will never temporarily 
select the wrong item before selecting the item they intend to select.  (This 
assumption is reasonable if the user selects an item using the mouse or if the 
user opens the dropdown menu with Alt+Down, but not if the user selects using 
just the arrow keys.)  Onchange fires when the user moves focus from the 
dropdown, for example by pressing the Tab key or by clicking somewhere else in 
the document.

If this turns out to be a major problem, we may reverse the change.  I think 
that navigation remains the main use of <select size=1 onchange=*>, though, and 
having to hit tab to make the rest of a form update isn't as bad as not being 
able to navigate a site.

(I'm testing http://www.nhorizon.net/~ryan/mozilla_bug1.html because I get 
JavaScript errors at the attached testcases.)

Comment 4

[Jason]

*** Bug 144174 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126379 ***

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

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