167195 - Focusing form text elements does not fire onfocus handler

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P4)

Description

[Robert S. Hart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When form text elements (input text and text area) focused, focus handler is not 
activated.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load testcase URL.
2.Click on checkbox, text elements, and document body to move focus around.
3.Window status area will display updated event target, currentTarget, and 
activation counter, as reported by a window-level onfocus handler.

Actual Results:  
Focus is effective for form elements and keys can be typed in, but window-level 
onfocus handler is not activated. Other elements activate handler as expected. 


Expected Results:  
All elements, including text elements, should activate window-level on-focus 
handler when focused.


In NS 4.79, focusing the text elements activates the onfocus handler as expected 
(although the checkbox element and document body don't do so).  So some existent 
pages will stop working.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like we never bubble those focus events out of the textbox and textarea....

Same on Linux.

Comment 2

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

Note that IE does not do this.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See discussion in bug 4033 -- focus events should not bubble.

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Can't load the testcase. And per DOM Events, focus and blur events should not bubble. I'd say this is INVALID.