138646 - textbox.blur() and textarea.blur() steal focus from other Mozilla windows

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Sven Jost]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

setTimeout javascripts steal the focus of all opened windows/tabs
by resetting a text value.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to
   http://starwars.gamigo.de/ticker/
   or directly to
   http://starwars.gamigo.de/ticker/countdown.php?id=1

Actual Results:  the timer steals the focus of all opened windows per second.

This bug is not a duplicate of bug 82534.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is due to the incomplete fix for bug 41813.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 157897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 184103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Sven Jost]

Attachment: demo input

modified demo lent from bug 265055

Comment 5

[Sven Jost]

Attachment: demo textarea

Bug is also present in textarea.blur()

Comment 6

[Sven Jost]

Better Blur() Method should be look like this:

NS_IMETHODIMP
nsHTMLTextAreaElement::Blur()
{
  nsIFormControlFrame* formControlFrame = GetFormControlFrame(PR_TRUE);

  if (formControlFrame) {
    SetElementFocus(PR_FALSE);
  }

  return NS_OK;
}

Is this okay? I need help.

Comment 7

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is fixed by bug 299677.