406514 - [XUL] Buttons with popup attribute don't open associated panel using keyboard shortcuts (space, enter)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Francis Gagné]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.11; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007120110

XUL buttons with the popup attribute referring to a panel don't open the panel if the button is activated using the keyboard (with the space or enter/return keys when the button is focused). Buttons whose popup attribute refer to a menupopup open the popup correctly.

This bug makes such panels inaccessible if they cannot be opened in another way.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a XUL document with a panel and a button whose popup attribute is set to the panel's ID.
2. Click on the button with the mouse. The popup should appear.
3. Press TAB to focus the button and press SPACE or ENTER.
Actual Results:  
The popup doesn't appear. If SPACE is pressed, the button doesn't look pushed.

Expected Results:  
The popup should appear as if the button was clicked with the mouse. If SPACE is pressed, the button should look pressed while SPACE is held down.

This happens in a XULRunner application, under XULRunner 1.9b2.

Comment 1

[Francis Gagné]

Attachment: Testcase

This testcase demonstrates the bug. Reproduce steps 2 and 3 from my previous comment with this document.

Comment 2

[Tim Adams]

Attachment: sedertcornkar19841182.txt

Thanks from goooonedilo1970.