158178 - Pressing Backspace readonly form field sends you to your previous page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Mel Reyes]

I have a readonly form field and I wanted to test it by pressing backspace and
my browser went back to the previous page.  The form page is in a frameset in
case it helps.

Frame 1 <-- one page
Frame 2 <-- one page with form
Frame 3 <-- one page

There are no sub framesets or subframes.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

reassigning

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

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Comment 3

[Eli Friedman]

Please attach a testcase.  I don't think this is a bug, but it would be nice to
have a testcase so the behaviour can be seen easily.

Comment 4

[Mel Reyes]

Attachment: Test Case for Readonly Session History Problem

Comment 5

[Mel Reyes]

btw, this happens even outside of frames, the original place I found this was in
frames, thought that might be part of the problem, but it happens on single page
also.

Comment 6

[kinmoz]

brade, can this be fixed in the same manner the "spacebar in textwidgets scrolls
browser page" bug was?

Comment 7

[Kathleen :Brade]

a couple things here--
 * I can't reproduce the backspace key going to previous page on my Mac builds
 * If you have a readonly form field, the editor doesn't do anything with the
event.  Perhaps we need to PreventDefault() in that check but I'm not so sure
after pondering this for a while.  It seems to me that the behavior that is
described is what should be expected (but maybe I'm wrong on this?).

I recommend resolving as INVALID

Comment 8

[Mel Reyes]

I see that pressing backspace is a new "feature" that bring you back a page, but
my test had focus on a form field.  If you load a page without changing the
focus on the page like from a link and press backspace it will bring you back
one page each time backspace is pressed.

This was tested an a Windows based system.

Comment 9

[Kathleen :Brade]

Is this still a bug?

Comment 10

[Mel Reyes]

Confirmed using Fx 1.0.7 build on WinXP and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051104 Firefox/1.5 - Build ID: 2005110405

Focusing on read-only and pressing backspace will bring you back to previous page.  I saw chatter in recent check-ins coming through with regards to "backspace" on different platforms, which prompted me to revisit this bug I had submitted (not sure if they were for branch or trunk though).  Also not sure if they are related.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

seen using bugzilla. don't recall if it was using FF or suite - both trunk, windows. 

IIRC I also lost the form data of the page it went back to. @#$^% crap

Comment 12

[Mel Reyes]

This still plaques the browser, the read-only fields as well as pressing backspace on a checkboxes and radio buttons.  This has bitten me when doing AMO approvals several times over and on other sites.  Is there any hope for this 4 year old bug...

Comment 13

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 14

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Test-case doesn't repro the bug for me.