241418 - Keyboard or mousewheel will only scroll the full page, not the text in the middle

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97283

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040422 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040422 Firefox/0.8

On the page at http://www.maystardesigns.com/journal.html, mozilla/firefox will
only scroll the whole page when using the mousewheel or keyboard. It will not
let me scroll the text in the middle of the page using either. I can only scroll
that by dragging the scrollbar or clicking the up or down arrows on the scrollbar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.maystardesigns.com/journal.html
2. Make the text box in the center active
3. Try to scroll using either the mousewheel or keyboard up and down keys

Actual Results:  
It doesn't scroll

Expected Results:  
It should have scrolled

Comment 1

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

I have observed this bug as well. The cause seems to be that the scrollbar is
created using the overflow: auto property of css2. This causes e.g. a div to
keep its fixed size and display a scrollbar, and can be used instead of an
iframe. However, firefox does not scroll this area with either the mouse wheel
or the keyboard. An exception that I have noticed, is that if the content area
contains a checkbox and it is selected (i.e. dotted line around it), the
scrolling seems to work perfectly well...

Comment 2

[Tom Maneiro]

resource:///res/samples/test12.html

Neither mouse wheel nor keyboard scrolling keys does not work there, just scrollbar.

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; es-ES; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

Comment 3

[Matthew Rasnake]

i'm also seeing this bug. even if i click within the overflow:auto DIV,
mousewheel scrolling doesn't work.

see this on http://www.x13design.com/bipolar/new_index.php

Comment 4

[Matthew Rasnake]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Matthew, did you even test this in a current build before confirming?  This
should be fixed in current trunk builds.

Assigning to you pending testing.

For future reference, please do not leave bugs in browser-general when you
confirm them -- that's a good way to make sure no one ever sees them.

Comment 6

[Matthew Rasnake]

i didn't intentionally mark this bug as confirmed or anything. i checked its
vote status earlier today, but never marked it as confirmed--at least, not on
purpose.

please do whatever's necessary to correct this slip of the thumb.

Comment 7

[Matthew Rasnake]

of course, now that i've been informed that the bug should be fixed, and taken a
moment to install the latest trunk, i can indeed confirm that this issue is
fixed in the latest firefox trunk build (11/22/2004). what needs to happen to
this bug next is beyond my ken.

Comment 8

[irongut]

Mousewheel was fixed in Bug 97283.
Keyboard was fixed in Bug 251986.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97283 ***