211854 - Focussing form elements should scroll entire element into view when possible (esp. textareas)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When I tab through the form elements of a page, it would be nice if the form
elements I focus were always scrolled into view entirely.

Currently, they are only scrolled into view when they are entirely out of view,
but if (say) the bottom few pixels of a textarea are visible at the top of the
screen, it remains like that when I focus it from below using Shift-Tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is in the wrong component.

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

confirmed with Moz 1.5a on WinXP.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 66619, which is specifically about multi-line links.

Comment 4

[MarjaE]

May conflict with bug 1584859.