Open Bug 1629382 Opened 5 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Show calendar when tabbing into input type="date" via keyboard

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Version:
77 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: sime.vidas, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date
  2. In the demo at the top of the page, focus the date input via the keyboard. To do this, click on the empty space above the “Start date:” label in the Output pane on the right and press the Tab key.

Actual results:

The date input is focused but the calendar dialog is not shown.

Expected results:

The calendar dialog should be shown, just like it is shown when you click the date input with the mouse.

Keyboard users might want to check which day of the week a certain date is, and for that they need to look at the calendar. Currently, there seems to be no way to show the calendar via the keyboard.

I probably should have been more specific in the title. Please update the title to say “date input” instead of input.

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Product: Firefox → Core
Summary: Show calendar when tabbing into input via keyboard → Show calendar when tabbing into input type="date" via keyboard

Resetting severity to default of --.

Severity: normal → S3
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