272248 - javascript click method has no effect on upload button means input type=file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 36619

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Felden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Javascript code can emulate a real click on a forms button by calling the click
function. Example: document.forms[0].button.click()
Only if it is an upload button nothing happens. Change the type="file" property
to another value, maybe type="reset" results the expected click

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a HTML page with an upload button within a form 
   You can add onclick="javascript:alert('clicked')"
2. Enter javascript:document.forms[0].button.click


Actual Results:  
No reaction

Expected Results:  
Button should be clicked, the alert should pop up

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36619 ***