254408 - mouse wheel doesn't scroll document if focus inside element with overflow property

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97283

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

Description

[nrlz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

If a link is inside a div tag with style "overflow:{scroll|hidden|auto}" and the
link is given the focus, the mouse wheel no longer scrolls the document. The
arrow keys still work though.

See attachment.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See attachment.
2. Tab to link to give it the focus. (will see dotted border around link.)
3. press up/down keyboard keys and document scrolls.
4. Scroll mouse wheel and document does not scroll.

Comment 1

[nrlz]

Attachment: test case

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

See also bug 97283.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

This will be fixed by bug 97283

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