400668 - Including hidden form field before text form field inside label prevents focus from going to text field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213519

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rick Hobbs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.8; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.8; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

If you have a label inside a form and within the label you have a hidden html input field before a text input field it is impossible to get the cursor in the input field to take keyboard focus.

Presumably this is because the standard says that the first input element in the label should receive focus, however as a hidden input field is not visible this does not make a lot of sense. I think it would make more sense for the first visible input element to receive the focus.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached test file in Firefox
2. Click in the input field
Actual Results:  
The cursor briefly flashes in the input field but goes away again. Typing does not result in text appearing in the field.

Expected Results:  
The cursor should remain in the text field and typing should input text into the field.

This is a problem as many frameworks for CMS/E Commerce etc. tend to add hidden fields to generated HTML and there is little control over how this is done in many circumstances.

Comment 1

[Rick Hobbs]

Attachment: Repo case for this bug