285581 - unable to reload page using F5 when disabled element has focus

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Jasper de Vries]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

I'm working on a page with "previous" and "next" <button>'s on it to browse
through <div>'s on a page (javascript: style.display = 'block'|'hidden'). On the
last page I disable the "next" <button> (javascript: disabled = 'disabled'). In
this situation the disabled <button> has focus and I can't use some (all?) key
shortcuts like F5.
If needed I can put a test page online tonight.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Yes, please attach a testcase (by using Create a New Attachment) or put a
testcase somewhere online.
Also try testing with the latest nightly trunk build:
http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[Jasper de Vries]

Attachment: Bug example

I've also tested this with the 10-Mar-2005 17:03 trunk build

Comment 3

[Jasper de Vries]

Maybe the button should loose focus when disabled by javascript

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I think another bug is that the disabled element should not have focus at that
point. When that would be fixed, it probably would also fix your bug.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

In fact we always need to move the focus if an element, or an ancestor to an
element is disabled, hidden or destroyed.

This should be done at the most general level possible so that it benefits not
just HTML, but also XUL and everything else.

Comment 6

[Daniel C]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050329 Firefox/1.0+

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created an attachment (id=177029) [edit]
> Bug example

Status -> NEW

FWIW Ctrl+F5 works. In fact, just pressing Ctrl, then F5 separately works too.

Comment 7

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.

Comment 8

[mrmr1993]

This looks like a dup of 486863.

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This seems to work for me with the latest Firefox nightly build. Please re-open if you can reproduce.