1517432 - date-field does not handle pressing the date separator key

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Gabriel Gritsch]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

I have a date-input-field and when I try to enter second november, I normally hit "2" (in german the day comes first) then I hit "." (in german the dot is the date separator) and then twice "1" for the month.
But that results in january 21st (21.1 instead of 2.11).
If I hit "TAB" after the "2" it works fine, but it should also switch to next component if the separator-key (depending on language) is pressed.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

As far as I can tell Chrome does not support this. When you say 'I normally hit "2"...', what app are you referring to using?

Comment 2

[Gabriel Gritsch]

(In reply to Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] from comment #1)

As far as I can tell Chrome does not support this. When you say 'I normally hit "2"...', what app are you referring to using?

Every application that I am using during the day supports it.
For example Calendar.app under macOS.

Comment 3

[Szobonya Csaba]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1517432 - Add separator keys to inputs and handle them when pressed

Comment 4

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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