Closed
Bug 257184
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
keyboard-modified clicks don't respect onClick return values
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Firefox
General
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RESOLVED
EXPIRED
People
(Reporter: beau, Assigned: bugzilla)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
I've defined an onClick event handler for an anchor tag, which wraps around an
image. Returning false from the handler should cancel the default action
associated with the html element, in this case 'follow link.' Indeed, this is
the case when a plain left-click is made on the anchor. However, modifying the
click with a keyboard modifier (shift, alt, ctrl) causes that return value to be
ignored. The handler will still be called, but the default action occurs no
matter the value returned.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save the following source to a file locally.
<HTML>
<BODY>
<A HREF='#' onClick='return false;'>
<IMG SRC='http://www.mozilla.org/images/mlogo.gif'>
</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>
2. load the saved source into Firefox.
3. Click the image without any keyboard modifiers.
3. Hold down shift, alt, or ctrl then click the image again.
Actual Results:
Actual results depend on the modifier used.
Expected Results:
Firefox should not follow links, regardless of modifier, when onClick returns false.
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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Reporter's testcase
What is the expected behaviour here? I get a new window, a new tab, and a save
as for Shift, Ctrl and Alt respectively. In no case does the original page
change in any way (because of return false).
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Reporter | |
Comment 2•20 years ago
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Expected behavior is that nothing happens. No new tab, no new window, no download.
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Comment 3•20 years ago
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This bug is nearly the opposite of bug 151142.
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Reporter | |
Comment 4•20 years ago
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For the record, while I'd prefer Firefox went with the defacto standard, I'd be
happy to settle for onAltClick, onShiftClick, and onCtrlClick event handlers.
This would let buddy in bug 151142 have his expected behavior, but would let
DOM/CSS hackers like me cancel the default events for those specific clicks.
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Comment 5•19 years ago
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Comment 6•19 years ago
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This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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