246576 - Caret invisible with onblur in input which focuses another input

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040611 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040611 Firefox/0.8.0+

See upcoming testcase.

In this testcase I have an <input type="text" onblur=".
In the onblur is code which focusses another text inputbox.
This causes the caret to become invisible, although you are to type.
Focussing another window/tab and then returnin makes the caret visible again.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Focus the first textbox
2. Focus the second textbox
3.

Actual Results:  
No caret visible in the second textbox.

Expected Results:  
The caret should be visible in the second textbox.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Ginn Chen]

reproduced on Linux

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 275966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Aaron, Mats, any idea what's up here?

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 280734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Cees de Groot]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; nl-NL; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

has the same bug.

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

I would guess this is fixed on trunk via bug 306320, which we decided not to take on branch because we didn't want to risk it.

Someone please test and see if this is a bug on trunk.

Comment 8

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Er, Aaron, I think you meant a different bug there, but anyway, I can still see the bug with today's trunk build.

Comment 9

[Aaron Leventhal]

Argh, I meant bug 303620.

Comment 10

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 263873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 322672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Not fixed by the patch for bug 287813.

Comment 13

[poletto]

The bug is still here (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070216 Firefox/1.5.0.10)

Comment 14

[Ivar Snaaijer]

Still here and unforgotten...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 ID:2007051502

Comment 15

[Martin Pecka]

FF 3.0b5 still has the same problem... :(

Comment 16

[Nick P]

I'm not sure if this will help fixing the bug, but I've found this works as a workaround:  call the focus in a timeout.  

instead of:
function focusOther(){
    document.getElementById("otherElement").focus();    
}

use:
function focusOther(){
    window.setTimeout(reallyFocus,1);
}

function reallyFocus()
{
    document.getElementById("otherElement").focus();   
}

Comment 17

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Works with 3.6