297120 - JavaScript confirm() function always returns true when placed on imagemap

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 116317

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[spam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If a JavaScript confirm() function is placed on a imagemap in order to ask the 
user if he/she wishes to continue, the confirm function never returns false or 
halts the page load.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make an image into an imagemap
2. Add an onclick event (e.g. onclick="return ConfirmTag();")
3. Return false if the user enters the cancel button.

Actual Results:  
The return false does not fire.

Expected Results:  
It should return false.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, could you attach a mininal testcase using
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=297120&action=enter if
possible? Thanks!

Comment 2

[spam]

Attachment: confirm() with an imagemap

Just run the .htm file with Firefox.

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

Attachment: reduced testcase

Even a simple |onclick="return false;"| fails when the image is an imagemap.

Comment 4

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116317 ***