251214 - preventDefault doesn't work with modifiers (e.g. ctrl, alt, shift )

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[CrazyDave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

preventDefault() should stop links from opening when they are clicked on. It
doesn't work if you hold down ctrl alt or shift. Each one of these still fires
off the apropriate behaivour ('open new tab'. 'save link', or 'open new window') 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load test page
2.Hold down a modifier (ctrl, alt and/or shift)
3.Click on the link

Actual Results:  
click (dialog box + nothing)
ctrl+click (dialog box + A new page loads in a tab)
alt+click (dialog box + Save page dialog opens)
shift+click (dialog box + A new page loads in a new window)

Expected Results:  
click (dialog box + nothing)
ctrl+click (dialog box + nothing)
alt+click (dialog box + nothing)
shift+click (dialog box + nothing)

Comment 1

[CrazyDave]

Attachment: TestCase

Comment 2

[CrazyDave]

Confirmed this on Mozilla 1.0 and Mozilla 1.6 and Foxfox 0.9.2 on Knoppix 3.4,
Windows NT4 and Windows 2000.

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Confirmed with:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Comment 4

[Jesiah S]

I see this also on LInux 2004093006.
Depending on your site you can use e.stopPropagation() as a work around.
Also Alt+click does not fire an event it seems.

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Can someone still reproduce this?

Comment 6

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Works for me, using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080820035100 Minefield/3.1a2pre