327102 - focus()/:focus is broken for some elements when the window doesn't have focus

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

focus() is broken for some elements when the window doesn't have focus.
The :focus styling seems confused, it applies to multiple elements.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. load attached testcase
2. click on the desktop background or a window of a different application
3. focus the window with the testcase again

ACTUAL RESULTS
2: The :focus outline/border is rendered for some elements even though they
   do not have focus, while for other elements the outline/border is not
   rendered when the element do have focus.
3. Now it works properly again.

EXPECT RESULTS
Same result with/without window focus.

PLATFORMS & BUILDS TESTED
Bug occurs in SeaMonkey 2006-02-11-02 trunk Linux
Bug occurs in Firefox 1.5 Linux

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 3

[Brian Polidoro]

Setting OS to all as I see this on Windows too.

Comment 4

[Timwi]

Hm, Bug 371078 has been marked as duplicate, but there is one piece of information in it that isn't mentioned here. Namely, that if you press Alt-Tab while a drop-down box is dropped down, it loses focus. Is this covered in another bug, or should I report this separately?

Comment 5

[Brian Polidoro]

I see that problem with 1.5 (and I presume with 2.0) but not with Minefield.  In minefield I only see the problem with multiple form items able to have :focus applied.  I'm not sure what fixed the focus problem or if that would be fixable in released versions.  

Comment 6

[Timwi]

This problem still occurs in Firefox 3 beta 5.

Comment 7

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

not blocking a branch release, will take it when it's fixed on trunk.

Comment 8

[Neil Deakin]

This bug should have been fixed by 178324.