280256 - Mouse wheel doesn't scroll the page when a <textarea> is focused

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Yves Goergen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

The mouse wheel should scroll the textarea, if the pointer is over it and there
is something to scroll. It doesn't. It only scrolls if the textarea is focused.
You can easily check this here in bugzilla or any other website. Same thing the
other way round: Even if there is no scrollbar at all in the textarea, the mouse
wheel cannot scroll the page (whether inside or outside the textbox) as long as
the textbox is focused.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
Like in Internet Explorer i.e. or maybe other browsers. So scroll whatever is
under the mouse pointer and can be scrolled, regardless of whether it's focused
or not. It's a pain to always unfocus the textbox first to be able to scroll the
page with the mouse wheel.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050127
Firefox/1.0+

Any example URL of this?

Comment 2

[Yves Goergen]

As I said, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org is just fine. Focus a multiline textbox
and try to scroll the page with the mouse. Sorry, should have included that in
the steps to reproduce...

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #2)
> As I said, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org is just fine. Focus a multiline textbox
> and try to scroll the page with the mouse. Sorry, should have included that in
> the steps to reproduce...

What multiline textbox, there is none on that provided url, be more specific please

Comment 4

[Yves Goergen]

Attachment: Testcase with a textarea and many lines on the page

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

wFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050422
Firefox/1.0+

This is fixed on trunk, it will be available in Firefox 1.1

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