287463 - Pressing enter (return) when <select> box is focused does not submit form

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Anthony Lieuallen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When any <input> element has focus, pressing the enter (return) key submits the
form.  But, when a <select> element has focus, pressing enter does nothing.

Observed in
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223
Firefox/1.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050323
Firefox/1.0+

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit any web site with a <select> box in a form.
2. Focus the <select> box, via keyboard or mouse navigation.
3. Press the enter (return) key.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Form submission

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Currently we act the same as IE. I guess the idea since that Enter in a dropped
down combo box must only select the option and not submit, that a browser should
not confuse people and submit when the combo box is closed.

Not that I necessarily agree with that. It just hasn't been considered a big
problem since other browsers act that way.

Question: what do Opera & Safari do?

Comment 2

[Anthony Lieuallen]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Currently we act the same as IE.
> Not that I necessarily agree with that. It just hasn't been considered a big
> problem since other browsers act that way.

I had never looked at it from that angle, but that makes a lot of sense when you
say it that way.  
I of course, just coming from the keyboard navigation standpoint, go through the
process "change field, tab, change field, tab, change field, enter" and expect
the form to submit.  It usually does, but not when the last field I happened to
change was a <select>

> Question: what do Opera & Safari do?

I can't even convince Safari (the mac in general) to let me focus a <select> via
any means.  Not well versed on the mac, I know it's configurable somehow but
can't remember now.
Opera (7.5.4 free version) also does nothing.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Reopen if needed.

Comment 4

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 327455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***