190876 - disabled form elements kill dom events

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218093

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Philip Hoyt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721

As seen in the testcase (click on any text field), a disabled form element will
kill onclick events in disabled form elements regardless of whether the event
belongs to the element itself, or whether the event belongs to a container div.
This applies to onMouseover events equally. 

Reading the w3c html spec, it doesn't look to me like this is the intention of
disabled elements. I believe that only their usefulness as elements of the form
is to be disabled, not their ability to handle events at all.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the URL above.
2. Click on each text field

Actual Results:  
The non-disabled text fields will produce alerts when clicked upon. The disabled
ones will not. In Internet Explorer, only the second disabled element will
produce an alert -- the second row has the onclick event in the container while
the first has it in the element itself.

Expected Results:  
I expected Mozilla to behave like Internet Explorer. Also, I think it would be
preferable if all form elements on the test case produced onclick events.

Comment 1

[Matthew Schultz]

Possible Dup of 218093?

Comment 2

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

*** Bug 330368 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

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

*** Bug 347537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Maris Nartiss]

*** Bug 347537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Duping to bug 218093 as there's more information/testcase etc.