197945 - Radio button should be automatically selected with associated textarea change.

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Jason Bassford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030317
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030317

If the value of a textarea control is changed, its associated radio button
should be automatically selected - just as is the case when an entry from a
dropdown box associated with a radio button is selected / changed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look at this bug report.
2. Click on the dropdown box to the right of "Resolve bug, changing resolution
to", and change it from "FIXED" to something else.  Notice how the radio box is
automatically selected as a result of the value change.
3. Now type something into the textarea box to the right of "Resolve bug, mark
it as duplicate of bug #".

(Remember to undo these changes prior to submitting any comments.)
Actual Results:  
The radio button is NOT automatically selected.

Expected Results:  
The radio button should have been automatically selected in order to maintain
consistency with the behaviour of its counterpart being so selected during a
dropdown box entry change.

This report is similar to bug 97348, which was marked WONTFIX, but I don't
believe it's a duplicate.  I'm not asking for a radio button state change based
only on moving the mouse cursor over the textarea box, but on an actual change
to the value of the textarea control itself.  (Just as it only happens with an
actual change to the value of a dropdown box.)  A value change should be
implicitly understood as a desire to select the associated radio button. 
Further, this is not about Bugzilla specifically but I think it should apply in
all such form control situations, Bugzilla or not (Bugzilla is just an easy
example, and one which I've repeatedly noticed every time I've duped a bug and
had to manually select the radio button after entering the bug number).

Alternatively, if the automatic radio button selection for a textarea change is
not to happen, I don't feel that it should happen for dropdown entry changes
either.  For the sake of consistency, either both should trigger the automatic
selection of their associated radio buttons - or none of them should.