Open Bug 1360755 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Keystrokes on <datalist> fire keyboard events on associated <input>

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Events, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Events
Version:
54 Branch
Type:
enhancement

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: lea, Unassigned)

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Details

See testcase. Keystrokes for navigating in the <datalist> or selecting an entry are firing keyboard events on the <input>.

Chrome does not fire events for those, Edge has the same behavior as Firefox.

The behavior is undefined in the spec, and I plan to file a spec bug too. 

Firing those events on the input makes it impossible to distinguish them from "real" keystrokes. For example, you may want Enter on the input of a to-do list to insert an item, but that shouldn't happen if Enter is pressed to select a datalist option. There is currently no way to distinguish the former from the latter.
Related WHATWG issue: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2605
Priority: -- → P3
Blocks: input-list
Severity: normal → S3
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