1436136 - Can't focus anchor tags by tabbing in Firefox Quantum 58.0.1 and 60.0a1 on MacOS High Sierra

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[calvindn]

Attachment: my example website

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.119 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Made a simple website with a few anchor tags, which I have attached.


Actual results:

Tapping the tab button results in the site information gaining focus, then the address bar, then search and then the entire webpage window, repeat.


Expected results:

At some point hitting tab should have resulted in the anchor tags on the webpage gaining focus. Chrome and Safari respond in the expected way but Firefox doesn't give focus to any elements on the website unless I click on them. After clicking one and hitting tab again brings focus out of the webpage to the browser elements I mentioned in the previous question.

Comment 1

[calvindn]

Found the answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11704828/how-to-allow-keyboard-focus-of-links-in-firefox

Not sure I think the reasoning is great, but this is the fix.