238794 - Return (enter) key always triggers next button irrespective of focus in wizard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 274672

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Pieter Edelman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

When a wizard is created using XUL, pressing the "enter" key always triggers the
"next" button in addition to the action for the element which has focus.

For example, if a wizardpage only contains a button which opens a file selector,
this button is focussed by default. When the "return" key is pressed, a file
selector is opened, but the wizard also switches to the next page.

The same holds for a multiline textbox which has focus. On "enter", a newline is
inserted in the textbox, but also the page is advanced.

There is a small difference in firefox 0.8 and mozilla (build 20040325) in this
respect. In the first example, in mozilla, the button stays focussed even when
the page is advanced, so pressing "enter" on the next page results in the
opening of a file selector. This does not happen in firefox which resets the
focus on every page advance.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register the testcase in your chrome (otherwise the wizard doesn't work properly)
2. Open this wizard. The button is now selected.
3. Press "Enter".

Actual Results:  
An alert box is displayed, and the wizard also advances to the next page.

Expected Results:  
Only the alert should be displayed.

Comment 1

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Not confirming, giving to Ben for sanity check.

/be

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Dupe of bug 274672 which already has a reviewed patch ready. :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 274672 ***