Unclear when users have focus in text fields
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: erwinm, Unassigned)
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Console error messages abut when it loses focus.
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0
Steps to reproduce:
visited https://archive.org/details/texts
Clicked on search bar, started typing, text shows up, keep typing...
Actual results:
... and the page flashes and jumps down when I type a space.
This happens about 1/2 the time, and I have NOT found a clear way to reproduce it.
Expected results:
It should be clear when we have focus. If we get text in the search bar, autocomplete suggestions for the search bar, etc., the page shouldn't jump when we type a space.
bug 1052527 suggests using an animated focus rectangle, but that wouldn't be accessible, because pain/animation.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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Are you using IME composition to insert text? This may be a duplicate of bug 1687704.
I'm clicking and typing, I'm not sure what IME is.
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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Are you typing in the address bar/Firefox search bar, or the search field on the page? Also, a screen recording of this happening would be helpful.
I'm using the search field on the page. It's unpredictable, and I haven't been able to get a recording. Maybe it's sometimes still loading while I'm typing, and loses focus while loading, or something. And maybe's it's finished loading by the time I've gone through the rigamarole of starting the recording.
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Comment 6•5 years ago
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Ah, then this is an issue with the site. They styled their search box to have no border, which is part of the issue you're reporting. I suggest you contact Archive.org about this.
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Comment 8•4 years ago
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It doesn't look like that error would cause what you describe in your original comment. Line 884 of FormAutofillContent.jsm just records some telemetry. There are two search fields on https://archive.org/details/texts, one in the top right corner and another in the left-hand sidebar. I can reproduce the error in the one in the sidebar. The sidebar one also has a focus ring, but the one at the top doesn't. As Harry says, that's just how archive.org designed their page.
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