175620 - make Home and End keys work in text fields and textareas on Mac OS X

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[J Luh]

It would be nice if you could use the Home and End Keys to move to the beginning
or end of a line of text in text fields and textareas.

Comment 1

[Paolo Marani]

Home and End keys works as expected in my case, mozilla 1.2b, W98
Be more specific please.

Comment 2

[J Luh]

Home and End do not work in text form controls (input type=text and textarea)
using Mozilla 1.2b (2002101612) on Mac OS X 10.2.1. According to comment 2, they
work on other platforms.

Comment 3

[Max Waterman]

Hi,

I see this behaviour and it'd be really nice if home and end were to behave as
exptect. It's a real pain the way it is.

Any chance this can be made to happen?

Max.

Comment 4

[Bruce Davidson]

*** Bug 188602 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Marc Bejarano]

the "pg up" and "pg dn" keys need to be made functional, too.  james: can update
the summary?

Comment 6

[John Flynn]

ds(In reply to comment #5)
> the "pg up" and "pg dn" keys need to be made functional, too.  james: can update
> the summary?

pgup and pgdown WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040517 Firefox/0.8.0+

Home and End still busted, though.

-Z

Comment 7

[Robert Lacroix]

Any news on that ? Problem persists in Firefox 1.0 !

Comment 8

[GT]

I am using 1.5 Beta 1 on Windows XP SP2. Occasionally I find that the cursor
navigation keys (Home, End and the arrow keys) will not work in a text field
such as the one I am typing in now. Switching to another application and then
back resolved the problem earlier today.

Comment 9

[Max Waterman]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I am using 1.5 Beta 1 on Windows XP SP2. Occasionally I find that the cursor
> navigation keys (Home, End and the arrow keys) will not work in a text field
> such as the one I am typing in now. Switching to another application and then
> back resolved the problem earlier today.

I think you'll find that opening another window, clicking in some text field,
then closing it, will make the original window's text fields work again.

Comment 10

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** Bug 188602 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Hannah Ligon]

Is there any update for fixing this bug?  Microsoft Office has corrected the use of the Home and End keys in its software for OSX, so it is possible to reassign use of the keys within the software being used.  

Comment 12

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

In native (single-line) text fields on Mac OS X, Home and End do nothing.  In multi-line text fields, Home and End scroll the view to the top/bottom but do not move the cursor.

Thus Gecko actually is working correctly according to platform expectations in input[text] and textarea widgets (surprise, surprise!), so this bug is really INVALID.

Comment 13

[Marc Bejarano]

i understand smokey's point in comment 12, but regardless of apple HIG, the way things currently "work" is quite far from ideal.  in native text fields on OSX, <Cmd>-<left> and <Cmd>-<right> do what users of other platforms expect <Home> and <End> to do.  unfortunately, firefox is using these key combinations for history traversal :(

i don't claim to know the best solution, but we need to figure out something to allow people to both navigate history and go to the beginning and end of text input lines.

Comment 14

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #13)
> i don't claim to know the best solution, but we need to figure out something to
> allow people to both navigate history and go to the beginning and end of text
> input lines.

This is already the case; if a text field is focused, the text behavior is used; otherwise, the history traversal behavior is used (and there additional non-conflicting shortcuts for the latter, in case you want to traverse history while typing in a text field).

The behavior of Home and End in text fields in Gecko is correct per the platform conventions on Mac OS X, so INVALID.

Comment 15

[Marc Bejarano]

(In reply to comment #14)
> there additional
> non-conflicting shortcuts for the latter, in case you want to traverse history
> while typing in a text field

namely?

tia

Comment 16

[Marc Bejarano]

if there are any, they aren't listed here:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

reopening so this doesn't get lost

Comment 17

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

The ones listed in your History menu, namely Cmd-[ and Cmd-]  

Someone should fix that web page, but that's a website bug, not this bug.

Comment 18

[Marc Bejarano]

thanks, smokey :)  i filed bug 38301 to track the website bug.