297329 - Autocomplete does not work properly when an input field contains an onkeypress event handler

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 286933

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[subscriber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If auto-complete is turned on, and there is an active onkeypress JavaScript
event handler, and auto-coplete displays a drop-down list of items, if the user
selects an item by pressing Enter on the keyboard, the keypress appears to be
sent to the onkeypress event handler before auto-complete is invoked. 

If the onkeypress event handler is used to submit a form, this behavior can
result in a form being submitted without the user intending to submt the form.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to a Web page that contains a form that contains an edit field with
an onkeypress handler that submits the form.
2. enter data into that edit field.
3. submit the form.
4. return to the same page.
5. start typing into the edit field.
(auto-complete displays a drop-down list)
6. Use the enter key to select the auto-complete value
7. Note that the form is submitted with the edit field containing the value that
the user has typed


Actual Results:  
The form was submitted when enter was pressed to select the auto-complete value.

Expected Results:  
Auto-complete should have "eaten" the keypress. The value should not be passed
to the JavaScript onkeypress handler.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Please provide a simple test case.

Comment 2

[subscriber]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please provide a simple test case.

Here is a link to a Web page that demonstrates the bug:

http://www.popupcop.com/firefoxbug/index.html

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Comment 3

[subscriber]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please provide a simple test case.

The test case was provided almost a month ago.

Could someone please review this bug and either confirm it or reject it.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 4

[tyl2]

I filed Bug #311795 and then found your bug, which looks quite similar. I found
that Firefox 1.5b1 fixed my problem but that it's resurfaced in Beta 2. I've
found that your bug exists in at least 1.5b2, so I'm voting for it.

Comment 5

[Daniel C]

I see this too using URL. Is it a regression? Quite annoying.

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

not a stop ship bug though. 

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 286933?

Comment 8

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286933 ***

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

Verified duplicate.