284703 - Events from arrow keys have keycodes of ascii characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126436

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott Ahten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Keypress events caused by arrow keys have a keycode that refer to printable ASCII characters. 

Up = 38 = &
Right = 39 = '
Left = 37 = %
Down = 40 = {

This causes code that checks input event characters (see test case) to falsely interpret arrow keys as 
visible characters instead of cursor movements.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Give text area focus. 
2. Press arrow keys. 
3. View last keycodes press in debug window
Actual Results:  
Arrow keys return keycodes of visible ASCII characters

Expected Results:  
Returned keycodes other than visible ASCII characters

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Scott Ahten]

Mozilla 1.06 on Mac OS still exhibits this behavior using the same test page...

http://www.pixelfreak.net/bug_reports/firefox/keypress.html

Note: IE on windows does not register keycodes for arrow keys. Safari shows the following codes for 
each key

UP: 63232
Right: 63235
Down: 63233
Left: 63234

 

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Scott, does Fx 1.5 still show this issue?

Comment 5

[Scott Ahten]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Scott, does Fx 1.5 still show this issue?
> 

Yes. This issue remains in 1.5. The same character codes are returned as when the bug was originally reported. 

Up = 38 = &
Right = 39 = '
Left = 37 = %
Down = 40 = {

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Fx 1.5 on Windows exhibits the same behavior. Also see bug 126436. This is probably a dupe, but I don't know of what.

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This is a dupe of the bug I cited in the comment above.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126436 ***