3422 - ACCESSKEY not working within links

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 959

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P2)

Description

[cpratt]

Pressing Alt-A doesn't do anything when the following source code is viewed in
the browser:

Press Alt-A to access <a accesskey="a"
href="http://www.mozilla.org/">mozilla.org</a>. (Mac users: press Command-A.)

Expected behavior is that mozilla.org is loaded in the browser.

Comment 1

[rickg]

Hello? McFly? What on earth does a command accelerator have to the parser?
Please rethink your problem statement, then resubmit this bug to the correct
owner.

Comment 2

[cpratt]

I have no idea what the heck the ACCESSKEY attribute has to do with the parser.
My mistake. Changing to event handling in hopes that that's more accurate...
(BTW, this isn't a command accelerator as it has nothing to do with the browser
UI, I believe.)

Comment 3

[cpratt]

Please note that my original description is poor. I meant to say:

To reproduce this bug, create a simple HTML document with the following code in
it:

<a accesskey="a"
href="http://www.mozilla.org/">mozilla.org</a>

When you load that HTML document in the browser, pressing Alt-A should then do
the same thing as clicking on 'mozilla.org' (that is, it should open
http://www.mozilla.org in the same window). However, in the 03-Mar build, it
does nothing. This code does work in IE 4.01 if you'd like to see what it's
supposed to do.

Comment 4

[leger]

Putting on M4 radar...not a Dogfood blocker.

Comment 5

[joki (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 959 ***