1564498 - Can not enter accented char on Mac OS input text field with autocomplete on

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[gang_ye]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_3) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0.3 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

On Mac OS, firefox, I have an HTML field
<input _ngcontent-uae-c16="" class="form-control filled ng-dirty ng-valid ng-touched" autocomplete="on" name="lastName" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0" type="text" maxlength="38" id="lastName">
I tried to enter accented char by pressing and holding down the a key, until little pop up thing showed up on the screen with all kinds caps on top of a, and a number below to let me choose which one. It is like below.

àáâä...
1234

I can pick a number to enter the corresponding char.

Actual results:

Unfortunately, it does not work for the text field I gave the HTML above. I have narrowed it down to the autocomplete="on". If I edit HTML and remove that attribute, then it works.

The HTML with autocomplete on works for safari and chrome.

Expected results:

the accented char should be entered into the field, even with auto complete on.

Comment 1

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Hi,
I cannot reproduce this issue on my machine(MacOS 10.14) with Firefox Release 68.
Can you please retest this using latest FF release build: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/.
If the problem still occurs you can try with safe mode https://goo.gl/AR5o9d.
Does this issue occur with a fresh profile? you can find the steps here : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 2

[gang_ye]

Downloaded the latest Firefox, still the same problem. Tried safe mode, still the same problem. Here is a bit new information.

When I inspect the element, here is the full html:

<input _ngcontent-wjw-c17="" class="form-control filled ng-dirty ng-valid ng-touched" autocomplete="on" name="firstName" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0" type="text" maxlength="38" id="firstName">

I did edit html, and this time, simply added a few spaces before the ">" at the end. After that I'm able to enter accented char as described above.

Comment 3

[gang_ye]

One more thing, the same html and steps work perfectly fine on Chrome and Safari.

Comment 4

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Attachment: specialchars.mp4

Comment 5

[Raluca Popovici, Desktop QA]

Hi,
I tried again to open the html in Firefox Release 68 and Nightly 70 and works for me(MacOS 10.14). You can see this in the video attached.
Can you please try with the latest Nightly build (https://nightly.mozilla.org/) because I'm not sure what can I do further.

Comment 6

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her)[:hsinyi]]

Couldn't reproduce as mentioned in comment 5. Haven't received information from the reporter for a while, going to close as INCOMPLETE.

Dear reporter, please feel free to reopen it when you have a chance to get back here.