236628 - ESC key clears form INPUT boxes prior to onkeydown or onkeypress trapping events.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Jason Gross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Firefox will clear the form's INPUT box before giving control over to the 
keytrapping event (such as document.onkeydown) when pressing ESC twice.  If I 
build a onkeydown event to capture and nullify any ESC keypresses, Firefox 
STILL clears the input box, and THEN passes control over to the javascript 
event routine - basically defeating my ESC keytrapper to prevent clearing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create an INPUT TYPE=TEXT form element.
2.Build a document.onkeydown event that captures and kills any ESC (ascii 27) 
keypresses.
3.type text in input box, press ESC twice - it gets cleared anyhow.

Actual Results:  
Clears the INPUT box.

Expected Results:  
Done nothing.  Any accessibility "feature" should be cancellable by my events.  
The event handler should have topmost priority over any enhancement to the 
browser.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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