283524 - scroll down the page, click an item, window resets back at top after popup appears

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike O'Dell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

clicking a hyperlink on the page cited above causes the page to scroll
back to the top instead of staying where it was. this behavior makes it
almost impossible to use Firefox on this site without going bonkers
losing your place every time you look at something.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open URL above
2. scroll down a page-full or so
3. click any of the hyperlinks

Actual Results:  
detail popup fires, which is correct, but the
original window resets back to the top of the page.

Expected Results:  
the page should NOT have rest to the top!
whether this portends other rendering bugs is unknown.

the page works as expected in Safari and OmniWeb

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

This certainly looks very like a bug.

The authors of the page in questions have obviously taken a lot of care
over its design and function, but success has eluded them by a hair's
breadth.

The attributes given for the various <a> elements are of the form
<a href='#' onclick="javascript:openvirtualbooth(15891, 'MIAMI05');">,
the problem is that the code in the onclick handler needs to return
false so that the link is not followed.

My way of doing this would be to add an explicit 'return false;' statement
and the end of the openvirtualbooth(( ) function and change the onclick 
attribute to read onclick="return openvirtualbooth( ..., ... );"

WFM

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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