31617 - Pressing Tab key causes discrepencies

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[prime]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Win98; U)
BuildID:    2000022820

On any web page, when pressing the TAB key in order to jump from one hyperlink 
to the next, the dotted box that appears around the hyperlink does not disappear 
when moving to the next hyperlink, resulting in having a dotted box around ever 
hyperlink. This also happens with form elements like radio buttons, when moving 
between them with the TAB key, the don't unpress.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to any URL
2.Press the TAB key several times in order to choose a hyperlink
3.

Actual Results:  Dotted box showing active hyperlink does not disappear after 
moving to next hyperlink on the page.
Radio buttons look as if they were pressed.

Expected Results:  The dotted box should jump from hyperlink to hyperlink as i 
press the TAB key. And radio buttons should unpress.

Comment 1

[Ryan Massie]

dupe of bug 30936

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30936 ***

Comment 2

[Sean Richardson]

Handling as requested by [e-mail] in bug 25258, "Selected FORM fields 
and links do not redraw when losing focus", REOPENED.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - I can't see any reference in that bug asking you to reopen 
this one. I'm confused - can you explain why this isn't a dupe of it? :-)

Gerv

Comment 4

[Sean Richardson]

Sorry, should have been more specific.Refer, in bug 25258, to the comment under:
 > ---- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2000-03-02 14:33 ----
...essentially, rather than marking DUP, Pierre is asking for bugs related to
this issue to be made part of a dependency tree for the engineers to sort out.
That comment has beenadded to bug 30671 should to make it clear.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Right, thanks :-) 

Gerv

Comment 6

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Reassigned to Event Handling

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 25258 has been fixed, so someone needs to check that this is fixed also.

Gerv

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This now works for Form Controls, but there is no dotted box at all for 
hyperlinks. I'm going to close this as WORKSFORME.

Gerv

Comment 9

[ckritzer (gone)]

Mass update:  changing qacontact to [e-mail]

Comment 10

[Loco]

Updating QA Contact.

Comment 11

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's
care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

Comment 12

[Madhur Bhatia]

QA contact updated

Comment 13

[luis rincon]

verified on build 2001-08-13-trunk