209060 - onChange tab control doesn't work as expected.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Peggi Rodgers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425

I needed to cause a tab or enter depression to hop to a specific box.  This
workaround solved the problem of the form being submitted on enter as well.  I
used the following code:
onChange="document.reservationForm.studentnumber.focus()"

This does appear to hop to the appropriate text box, but when you begin to enter
data you find it is, in fact, on the next active link rather than the
appropriate textbox or textarea.

This event handler works in IE 5.5 as well as Netscape 4.7.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter data in any textbox/textarea (not checkboxes)
2. Hit the Tab or Enter key
3.

Actual Results:  
It appeared to hop to the textbox/textarea specified in the code.  However, when
I began entering data, the cursor was actually located on the active link just
before the textbox/textarea - what would be the default location if you had no
coding and used the tab to move around the form.

Expected Results:  
Both IE and Netscape 4.7 moved the cursor to the textbox/textarea specified in
the coding.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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