300173 - Improper focus handling when working with JS events such as onchange etc.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 294882

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, defect)

Description

[justin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4

When using an HTML <select> that contains a list of inpage bookmarks and an
onchange event handler for that select element, the page will flicker as the
page location is changed to the bookmark's location in the page but then snapped
back to the location where the original <select> is located and orienting the
page so that said <select> is at the very top of the window.

This appears to be because after focus never fully leaves the <select> control
as the page location is changed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Create a select such as the following

    <select onChange='window.location=this.value;'>
      <option value=''>Other surnames</option>
      <option value='#my_bookmark'>B</option>
    </select>

More than a screen's height away (roughly 100 lines depending on screen
resolution) write  

<a name='my_bookmark'>howdy!</a>


Actual Results:  
As described in the details of the bug.

Expected Results:  
Window location should be changed to the place where <a
name='my_bookmark'>howdy!</a> occurs in the text.

No work around known.

Comment 1

[justin]

Attachment: This is the page where i encountered the problem.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294882 ***