271829 - placed inside of popup menu elements don't handle keyboard events

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122

It look like elements inside of popup menu don't handle keyboard events. In
instance, if you can place textbox or listbox into popup menu then you can't
type any text into textbox or you cann't select items of listbox by keyboard.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

You can find testcase on
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=134749&action=view.
Press right button of mouse on textbox and try to type any text into textbox.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

confirm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050909
SeaMonkey/1.1a

Comment 4

[Laeb]

I can confirm this too for Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 5

[yakster]

I can confirm this too for Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Comment 6

[Annie Sullivan]

I made an extension as a testcase for this: http://www.monkey.org/~annie/popups.xpi

It adds a label with a popup to the statusbar. If you click the label ("popup") a popup shows.  There are event listeners for click and keypress on the textbox inside the popup.  The click event listener works, and the keypress one doesn't.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

This bug (and I'm surprised nobody managed to find a duplicate, I feel sure one exists) is invalid.

If you think about how context menus work, they need to be able to handle up and down arrows and accelerator keys despite not having the focus (the original element keeps the focus). This means that they have to capture all key events. You can however turn this capturing off by specifying ignorekeys="true" on the popup element.

If you then want to be able type into the textbox inside the menu you must of course set focus to it.

Comment 8

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Yes, ignorekeys="true" solves the problem. Mark as invalid because I cannot find a dublicate.