279192 - Inconsistent handling of onclick="location.href='foo.html';>

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, P5)

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050105

Basically, sometimes Mozilla will honor the onclick event handler, and sometimes
it will honor the href attribute.  About 30% of the time from my testcase,
onclick takes precedence.  (The exception is when the document URL already has
that # character.  In that case, onclick wins out 100% of the time.)

In theory, the href attribute could be equal to "bar.html".

I believe this bug blocks bug 274399, because window.history affects
window.location (or document.location, in our company's testcase).

I was unable to find a clear reference in either the W3C DOM specs or mailing
lists, or within Mozilla's own Bugzilla, as to what the correct behavior is.

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Attachment: testcase borrowed from company's test suite

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is effectively a dup of bug 274399... we need to decide what behavior we
want here, and whether we care exactly.  Note that pages can get consistent
behavior with return false.

Comment 3

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

(In reply to comment #2)
>  Note that pages can get consistent behavior with return false.

Unless the user presses a modifier while clicking on the link. But that's a different story, see bug 319554.

Comment 4

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.