288187 - onChange not firing for select boxes when key based selection is made

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126379

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Timothy C. Quinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When a drop down (select) is changed by pressing keys - Arrow or alpha, the
onChange event is not firing.

Since the key presses are *changing* the selected item, the onChange should
fire. For now, I have to workaround by handling a keydown event for mozilla only
which is kind of sloppy code.

BTW - I tested in Mozilla 1.8a6 and the same problem was there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a drop down
2. Create a onchange event for drop down
3. Set focus to drop down and press up down arrow keys or alpha keys to select items

Actual Results:  
onChange does not fire with key presses that result in change in selected item.

Expected Results:  
onChange should fire when a keypress changes the selected item.

Comment 1

[Timothy C. Quinn]

Attachment: Simple testcase for bug

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126379 ***