139581 - CARET disappears or is delayed after TABBING into 2nd, 3rd textarea field until mouse action sets focus

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135154

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[TucsonTester3]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4)
Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1
BuildID:    2002042206 

Tabbing through the testcase textarea boxes that have more than 1 on the page,
the CARET disappears or is delayed for several seconds or until:

1. You click the mouse onto the page
2. You wait 2-4 seconds


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch browser.
2.Load testcase
3.Type into text area and TAB to next field
4. Wait for 2-4 seconds to see if CARET achieves visibility
5. Click onto page or into text area with mouse for CARET to appear.

Actual Results:  The caret will show immediately in the top window, is delayed
or disappears in the second, third textareas. Fascinatingly, it appears
immediately in the fourth textarea box where there is one. If there is five
textarea boxes on the page the first and last will produce CARET, but the center
boxes don't.

Expected Results:  The TAB should produce the caret in each textbox immediately
and without needing to create focus with mouse action. It should never "skip" an
area unless disabled.

Comment 1

[TucsonTester3]

Attachment: Caret skips textarea boxes (5 on Page)

Comment 2

[TucsonTester3]

Attachment: Caret disappears in multi-boxed textareas

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is already a bug on the "non-blinking" caret in textareas...

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

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Comment 5

[kinmoz]

I think this is a dup of 135154, I can't reproduce this problem in my debug tree
that has the fix for that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135154 ***

Comment 6

[michael wendell]

Verified.